The Short Story Collections of W. Somerset Maugham

Waldstein: The 91 stories Maugham thought worth reprinting, all post-WWI. Different prefaces and number of volumes, but exactly the same stories in all editions.

1951, Heinemann, 3 vols.
1952, Doubleday, 2 vols.
1963, Penguin, 4 vols., "Collected Short Stories".

Waldstein: 1899-06. Six stories. All reprinted in #11.

Waldstein: 1921-09-17. 1st mature collection. Mischievously subtitled "Little Stories of the South Sea Islands". Six masterpieces. New preface for The Collected Edition (1935).

Waldstein: 1926-09-02. 2nd mature collection. Set in the Far East. Six masterpieces. Original preface "The Casuarina Tree" and Postscript.

Waldstein: 1928-03-29. 3rd mature collection. Spy adventures around Europe. 16 chapters: 15 of them later merged into 6 stories. New preface for The Collected Edition (1934), expanded with three paragraphs at the end for the 1941 Doubleday, Doran edition.

Waldstein: 1931-09-17. 4th mature collection. European locales. Six masterpieces. Stories in the first person singular have never been told with such urbanity, charm and virtuosity. Original preface. New preface for The Collected Edition (1936).

Waldstein: 1933-09-19. 5th mature collection. Set in the Far East. Six masterpieces. Original preface "Ah King"; expanded for The Collected Edition (1936).

Waldstein: 1936-02-21. 6th mature collection. 29 very short stories published (with the exception of "The Judgement Seat") in Cosmopolitan between 1924 and 1929. Original Preface.

Waldstein: 1940-06-06. 7th mature collection. 10 stories, eight set in Europe and two in St Laurent de Maroni. Original Foreword.

Waldstein: 1947. 8th and last mature collection. 15 stories, some recently written, some revised versions of pre-WWI pieces. Original preface "The Author Excuses Himself".

Waldstein: 1969, ed. Craig Showalter. Contains the complete Orientations (1899, #1) + 11 stories previously published in magazines prior to WWI.

Waldstein: 1984. Mostly non-fiction, but it does contain four stories collected here for the first time, including "The Buried Talent (1934), the only mature story by WSM never reprinted in book form during his lifetime.

Waldstein: Contains three recently discovered pre-WWI stories, previously published only in magazines, as yet uncollected in book form.