Books

7.75 x 5", embossed red cloth, 289pp, extremities bumped and worn, spine with some wear, pp toned; a rather loose copy in a worn, edge-chipped/worn dustjacket with a couple of horizontal spine tears, some fairly bad adhesion marks on rear panel, and a tear at the front hinge that has been repaired with browned cello tape (on the inside of the dustjacket). But FIRST EDITION (with Doran seal on copyright page) IN A SCARCE DUSTJACKET, such as it is.

'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.