First US edition, first printing; first published in London in 1926, two weeks prior to the US edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "for Luigi Muller from W. Somerset Maugham, Nov 23. 1927". Includes the short stories "Before the Party", "P. & O.", "The Outstation", "The Force of Circumstance", "The Yellow Streak", and "The Letter".
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