8vo (227 x 149 mm). Half-title, title-page printed in red and black. (Very slight marginal toning.) Original decorated morocco, sides with 12 raised squares gilt, smooth spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut and unopened; black-morocco tipped chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Saul Shapiro (bookplate).

LIMITED EDITION, number 726 of 1000 copies, SIGNED BY MAUGHAM. "Published simultaneously with the ordinary trade edition, but in printing followed the trade edition" (Stott A70c).

[With:] MAUGHAM. The Razor's Edge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. 8vo. (Slight marginal toning.) Original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (corners lightly bumped, a touch of wear to extremities); publisher's dust jacket (toned, chipped along edges and folds). FIRST TRADE EDITION, preceded by the Limited Edition of 750 copies. The novel, which follows protagonist Larry Darrell after his return from World War I, takes its name from the epigraph: "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." Stott A63b.