Illustrated by Richard C. Jones. 8vo. Original green cloth with dust jacket. London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1939.
First edition of Maugham’s fairy tale(printed in United States, this edition not published in Great Britain, the story first appearing in a magazine in 1922). This copy is in fine condition; the pictorial dust jacket is price clipped, but otherwise fine and bright. In a stout, functional leatherbound case.