First trade edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, dust jacket. Melbourne, London, Toronto, William Heinemann, 1952.
This book in inscribed and signed by Maugham on the endpaper, “For Ernest Rasdall W. Somerset Maugham London 13 Nov 1955”. Rasdall was a collector who especially during 1950s received inscribed books from writers such as Kingsley Amis, J.R.R. Tolken and Somerset Maugham.
