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New York: Geroge H. Doran Company, 1925. Hardcover. VG/VG- discoloration to spine, corner and edge wear to slipcase.. Blue and 3/4 cream boards with gilt lettering on leather spine label. Blue hardshell slipcase. 289 pp. "This large paper edition of The Painted Veil is limited to two hunder and fifty numbered copies signed by the author, of which this is number 195.

'The Painted Veil' is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham set in the 1920s. It encompasses themes of love, betrayal, and redemption in the midst of a cholera epidemic in a Chinese mainland setting, focusing on the character Kitty Fane and her journey towards self-discovery and personal liberation.