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Mansfield, Katherine. In a German Pension. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1926.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Description: 199p. Good condition, covers lightly soiled

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Katherine Mansfield. In a German Pension. Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1926.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green cloth hardcover, light edge wear, some ink marking to rear cover, not very noticeable, spine label rubbed with edge wear and sunned, red tint top edge partially faded. Well bound, covers firmly attached. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down, with ownership name in ink above, and bookplate ownership name written on the on rear end page. Otherwise, free of marking with pleasingly bright paper contents. No dust jacket. Further details given, and questions are always welcome. Scans can be made upon request.

Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.

Mansfield, Katherine. In a German Pension. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1926.

Price: US$31.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Title on a paste down at the spine. Paste down has faded. Green cloth covered boards. Inside front formally had a pasted label which has been removed, however part of label backing still remains. Small tear to FFEP along the top edge and at the spine. Book pages are clean with no marks or page folds. Bookseller Inventory BS/BS6443 112018

Seller: Bookensteins, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

Mansfield, Katherine. In A German Pension. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1926.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 1926 Knopf First American Edition of Mansfield's first book. This copy is in Near Fine condition. The green boards are very clean with only the merest of a bump along the corners and spine ends. The title pastedown on the spine is chipped a bit but the writing is still present and legible. The interior has a small previous owner signature on the inside board and the decorated endpapers are still vivid and bright. A superior copy!

Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Mansfield, Katherine. In A German Pension. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1926.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Description: 199 pages. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. Mansfield first book written at the age of 21 in 1911. Two years later she married J. Middleton Murray, eminent British critic. A New Zealander, this book, a collection of short stories was out of print for 14 years. Mansfield died at the early age of thirty-four in 1923, the promise of a distinguished literary career unfulfilled. In scarce dust wrapper, bookplate. Orig. forest green cloth with very fresh printed spine label. Fine in dust wrapper lacking half centimeter at head and foot of spine, and with light dampstain lower front cover corner.

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Mansfield, Katherine.. In a German Pension.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1926.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing of this reissue edition. Originally published in 1911 [London, Stephen Swift], this is the First American Edition of Mansfield's first book, a collection of 13 short stories, with a brief Introductory Note by John Middleton Murray. A Fine copy in green cloth, patterned endpapers, spine label, in a Very Good example of the scarce fragile pale pink dustwrapper, dulled externally to a pale tan, with small wear to points, and a closed split along lower edge of front flapfold. Price-clipped. 199pp. Q10075

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Mansfield, Katherine [pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp]. IN A GERMAN PENSION. , 1926.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Original green-blue cloth with spine label, with dust jacket. First American Edition of the author's first book, published fifteen years after the 500-copy English edition (and three years after her death). In 1909, Kathleen Beauchamp's mother traveled to London from their native New Zealand to check on her daughter -- and discovered 20-year-old Kathleen pregnant by one man, married to but quickly separated from (the same day!) another man, and living with a woman. Her mother sent Kathleen off to spend 1909-1910 in a German pension -- which specialized in "hosing down" its guests with ice water! Kathleen quickly moved to a cheaper (and presumably less-invigorating) pension; during these months she suffered a miscarriage. As pointed out by John Middleton Murry (her subsequent second husband), in the Introduction that he wrote for this (and the second English) edition, "Katherine" would not allow this book to be reprinted. In 1920 she had written to Murry, "I cannot have IN A GERMAN PENSION reprinted under any circumstances. It is far too _immature_, and I don't even acknowledge it today." Thus it was not until after her death from tuberculosis, in January 1923, that Murry began arranging for this and other of her writings to be published. This is a fine copy except a little "bumpiness" of the spine label; the dust jacket is very good to near-fine (quite minor edge-wear, one one-inch closed tear, and the usual fading of the pale pink background). This American edition is rather uncommon: although its number of copies is unknown, it is known that total American sales through 1944 (including a 1935 reprint) amounted to only 3,873 copies. Kirkpatrick A1b.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.