First edition, preceding the UK edition. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A near fine copy of the book, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. The dustwrapper has small areas of repair and restoration to the spine ends and corners.
 
Somerset Maugham's most acclaimed novel, adapted to film in 1946 and 1984. Doubleday got the book through the press in late 1943, and published it in March 1944, preceding the UK publication.