Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1981, 1^st Trade Edition, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-03-058501-5.  Edited by Roy Hoopes.  Hard cover, 312 pages.  Near fine unread copy.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge and cover wear, some light rubs and scratches.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Best remembered for his sensational bestselling novels of the 1930s, James M. Cain may well be one of the most important, yet still misunderstood, of American authors.  …  Here then, timed with a major revival of interest in Cain’s work, is the first book to collect the best of his shorter work – selected short stories and sketches together with one of his finest serials, the novella published at different times under the titles “Money and the Woman” and “The Embezzler.”’ (from front flap)