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The Garden Party and Other Stories.
A fine copy
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First edition of the final collection of the author's stories published in her lifetime, rare in fine condition. After Mansfield's death the following year, Virginia Woolf remembered Mansfield for having "the only writing I have ever been jealous of... Probably we had something in common which I shall never find in anyone else" (Diary, vol. 2, p. 227).
Although Mansfield herself viewed the title story as "a moderately successful story, and that's all", the collection was widely celebrated (Journal, p. 195). Her husband and editor, John Middleton Murry, comments that "the appearance of The Garden Party finally established her as the most remarkable short-story writer of her generation in England" (Journal, p. xiii).
Description
Octavo.
Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in orange, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket.
Bookplate of New York heiress Olga Drexel Dahlgren (1898-1969), designed by her rumoured lover Rockwell Kent. Jacket unpriced as issued, spine slightly toned: a fine copy in like jacket.
Kirkpatrick A5a. John Middleton Murry, ed., Journal of Katherine Mansfield, 1928; Virginia Woolf, The Diary, vol. 2, 1978.
A fine copy
First edition of the final collection of the author's stories published in her lifetime, rare in fine condition. After Mansfield's death the following year, Virginia Woolf remembered Mansfield for having "the only writing I have ever been jealous of... Probably we had something in common which I shall never find in anyone else" (Diary, vol. 2, p. 227).Although Mansfield herself viewed the title story as "a moderately successful story, and that's all", the collection was widely celebrated (Journal, p. 195). Her husband and editor, John Middleton Murry, comments that "the appearance of The Garden Party finally established her as the most remarkable short-story writer of her generation in England" (Journal, p. xiii).
Description
Octavo.
Illustrations
Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in orange, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket.
Condition
Bookplate of New York heiress Olga Drexel Dahlgren (1898-1969), designed by her rumoured lover Rockwell Kent. Jacket unpriced as issued, spine slightly toned: a fine copy in like jacket.
Bibliography
Kirkpatrick A5a. John Middleton Murry, ed., Journal of Katherine Mansfield, 1928; Virginia Woolf, The Diary, vol. 2, 1978.
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