MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Painted Veil. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1925).

First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Maugham's famous Hong Kong set novel of adultery and cholera. "The story of Kitty Garstin - beautiful, thoughtless Kitty whose world was her oyster and who married her husband because she could not bear that her younger sister should be married before her. Then came tragedy and the slow birth of Kitty's soul in the agony and the exaltation that is attendant upon all birth". Very scarce in original illustration dustjacket. Near Fine but for top rear cover corner bumped (and top fore-edge page corner), in attractive Very Good dustjacket.

Price: $2,500.00