 The distinctive "Orient" editions were published by the P. F. Collier & Son Corporation "By Special Arrangement with Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc." They were uniform in appearence with a design blind-stamped into each cover. The design depicted an oriental face centered in a spider's web with the words "Mystery," "Love" and "Intrique." A spider dangled from the web. |
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| The spines were printed in gold and bore a smaller version of the web design.
They were sold in plain white dust wrappers with a hole cut out on the spine to allow the
title to show. The only dates included were the copyright dates. The order of publication and dates of publication (1930s) are not known. Curiously, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu is not known to have been included. The various titles may have been printed in two or more batches. Thaddeus Tyszka has an original Collier's shipping box containing six different titles. The box is blank on all sides but one, and that one has a large label on it with 4 rows of text: |
