Which one do you prefer? The one without the “the” is actually the second printing; both represent the first paperback edition published in 1956. Even though the “the” is unobtrusively lower-case, it must have rankled somebody—maybe O’Hara himself, since few of the titles of his many short stories and novels have more than three words in them.
One of O’Hara’s other short story collections is called And Other Stories. You could judge that either as a superfluous “And” or as a title so concise that the subtitle has overcome the need for a title.
In any case, this is what I call editing!