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Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some minor dampstains to upper margin of title leaf, and blank margins of a few leaves at rear. Lacking dust-jacket and slipcase. ; This copy is number 921 of an edition of 1,200 copies. Printed in Italy in 1939, on paper made by Enrico Magnani, Pescia, however publication was delayed until 1947 due to World War Two. [10], 316, [2] pages + tipped in "Publisher's Note". The "Verona Press wish to make it clear that it is not identical in contents with the standard volume of stories published by Messrs. Constable under the same title." - from the Publisher's Note. Patterned green cloth boards gilt lettered red lettering piece on spine. Page dimensions: 257 x 174mm. Illustrated with colour lithographs by Marie Laurencin. A collection of 14 stories: The Tiredness of Rosabel; New Dresses; Something Childish but very Natural; The Little Governess; Prelude; Psychology; Bliss; Miss Brill; Life of Ma Parker; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Mr. and Mrs. Dove; The Garden Party; The Doll's House; A Cup of Tea.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield. The Garden Party and other stories. The Verona press, London, 1939.
Price: US$314.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover First Edition First illustrated edition, with colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Tall octavo. Original green pastepaper over boards with printed red paper spine label gilt. Slight rubbed,near fine. One of 1200 numbered copies (the first 30 were signed)this is number 40/1200 designed by Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. Illustrated with coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin
Seller: Antiquariaat Tanchelmus bv, Berchem, Belgium
Price: US$418.79 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 316 pages. Langue : anglais, English book. This book, designed by Hans Mardersteig, was printed in the autumn of 1939 at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, in Centaur type. The paper was made by Enrico Magnani, Pescia. The stones from which the coloured lithographs were printed have been ground. This edition consists of 1200 numbered copies of which Nos. 1-30 were signed by the artist. Our copy is number 472. Achevé d'imprimer en automne 1939 à l'Officina Bodoni, Vérone. Les pierres sur lesquelles les lithographies furent tirées ont ensuite été effacées. Le tirage a été de 1200 exemplaires numérotés, dont les 30 premiers (1 à 30) ont été signés par l'artiste. Couverture rigide, toilée. Etat : bon état. Couverture : assez bon, défraîchie, passée, frottée, petites taches sur le 1er plat. Intérieur : bon, un peu d'oxydation sur les pages de gardes (vierges). 26 x 19 x 3.5 cm 1090g.
Seller: ABC - Eric Girod, Estavayer-le-Lac, FRIBO, Switzerland
Katherine Mansfield. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, 1939.
Price: US$424.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Used - good - Limited Edition, numbered, this copy #121/1200 - contains coloured lithographs - dust jacket shows some slight wear and tanning to color - the book cover is beautiful - has a bookplate on the inside front cover - a sound useful copy.
Seller: Carolina Book Trader, Clayton, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This copy is number 232 of 1200. 4to: 318pp. Decorative green cloth, with red and gilt label on spine, complete with worn dust wrapper. 16 coloured lithographs. Minor spotting on covers, edges and throughout.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, 1939.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, no.430/1200. Illustrated with coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Royal Octavo. 316pp. Original full printed cloth, title label to spine. Book designed by Hans Mardersteig. Paper made by Enrico Magnani. A little faint spotting to spine. Also light spotting to end papers and prelims. Otherwise generally clean and bright. A 'Very Good+' copy. Lacks the dust wrapper and slipcase. Additional shipping may be required for overseas orders.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
MANSFIELD KATHERINE. The Garden Party and Other Stories. , 1939.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: (London: The Verona Press 1939). SPECIAL AND LIMITED EDITION. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed in the autumn of 1939 at the Offina Bodoni, Verona in Centaur type. The paper was made by Enrico Nagnani, Pescia. # 522 of 1,200 numbered copoies. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Publisher's original green patterned linen-covered boards with red title label, in grey D/W. Mild foxing to the end-papers otherwise a near fine (or better) copy in like D/W slightly darkenened to the spine and with a hint of creasing at the spine tips. Publisher's Note tipped in. Without the slipcase. Note: Although printed before WW2 it was held up in Italy during the war and not released until 1947. A very nice copy indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First of this limited, illustrated edition. Small quarto decorated pale green cloth. Red leather label to the spine, lettered in gilt. Illustrated with lithographs in color by Marie Laurencin. #417/1200. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed in the Autumn of 1939 at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. To the leaf following the copyright page there is tipped a Publisher's Note stating, "This special limited edition aims at presenting in one volume the best stories written by Katherine Mansfield at every stage in her career." There is trace foxing along the page edges as well as the endpapers. Otherwise nearly fine. The printed gray dust jacket is somewhat darkened at the spine. There is minor, very shallow chipping along the upper spine and upper corners. Very good+, quite nice. The original board slipcase, with matching number, is quite worn, soiled, and with long splits along three seams. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 315(1) pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$711.44 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition in this form. Number 948 of a Limited Edition of 1200 copies. Original patterned cloth in dust wrapper a little browned on the spine and with slight traces of wear along the top and bottom edges.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$724.00 + shipping
Description: First Limited (and First Illustrated) Edition, number 145 of 1200 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on handmade paper. Oversized 8vo: [xii],316,[2, colophon]pp, Illustrated with 16 superb colored lithographs by the French Cubist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956). Publisher's olive-green and cream patterned cloth, red paper lettering piece gilt to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in orange and black, manuscript inscription to front fly-leaf in elegant hand, stone-colored dust jacket printed in pale olive-green. Without the slipcase. According to Kirkpatrick, "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947." Near Fine or better (spine ends lightly rubbed, page edges spotted) else a crisp, bright copy in Near Fine or better jacket (several light smudges and insignificant pale stains). NCBEL IV 653-654. Kirkpatrick D6. Connolly 40. First edition of this collection, its contents differing from those of the collection of the same name published in 1922 (Kirkpatrick A5). The publisher's note (tipped in, on tan paper, following copyright page) states, "This special limited edition aims at presenting in one volume the best stories written by Katherine Mansfield at every stage in her career." Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in New Zealand, and moved to Great Britain in 1908; she died of the effects of tuberculosis, contracted during World War I, at the age of thirty-four. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
MANSFIELD, Katherine. THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$840.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With Coloured litographs by Marie Laurencin. Colophon: "the edition consists of twelve hundred numbered copies of which Nos. 1-30 were signed by the artist". This copy is number 943. La sobrecubierta se encuentra en muy buen estado salvo dos cortes horizontales en el lomo sin pérdida de material. Este ejemplar contiene además una Publisher Note en una hoja adherida luego de la portada 316 págs.
Seller: Valentin Peremiansky, Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION (833/1200). Large 8vo. (25.5 x 17 cm) pp. 316 + [2] (colophon). Original publisher's decorative green cloth, red gilt lettered cloth label to spine, upper edge dyed yellow, outer and lower edges uncut. With original dustwrapper and numbered slipcase (833). 16 coloured lithographs after Marie Laurencin. Light shelfwear to slipcase, very light spotting to outer edge. An excellent example overall. Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety of observation. The Garden Party (originally published 1922) includes "At the Bay," "The Voyage," "The Stranger" and the classic "Daughters of the Late Colonel," a subtle account of genteel frustration. Marie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press London, Oxford, 1939.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book, designed by Hans Marderseig, was printed in the autumn of 1939 at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, In Centaur type. The paper was made by Enrico Magnani, Pescia. The stones from which the coloured lithographs were printed have been ground. The edition consist of twelve hundred numbered copies of which Nos. 1-30 were signed. This copy is number 352. In original pictorial cloth with red label to the spine. Dust-wrapper in fine condition with additional transparent jacket. In original cloth numbered slipcase.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Large octavo. Sixteen coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. Patterned paper boards with leather spine label.Number 674 of 1200 copies.Fine in near fine dustwrapper faintly darkened at the spine and card slipcase which is a bit darkened at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Mansfield,Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$1338.42 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Special & Limited Edition[1200 copies:Number 314].Publishers Note:Tipped in.Illustrations:Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin.Decorative Cover.Previous Owners Insc[neat].ffep.Small Booksellers Label inside crnr of front cover.Some light foxing to endpapers & block edge only.
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$1553.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, (x), 315pp. One of 1,200 copies designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni. Illustrated with sixteen original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Bound in paste-paper-covered boards with a gilt-stamped cloth label on spine. Faintest scattered foxing, minimally affecting a couple of the plates, small booklabel inside front cover, else about fine in printed dust wrapper, which is lightly toned to spine and has a slight outward crease. Housed in a numbered slipcase, which is cracked at the head and foot of spine.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
MANSFIELD Katherine. THE GARDEN PARTY. And other stories. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$1983.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1 volume reliure bradel toile verte originale ornée, piéce de titre rouge, 316 pages [1] (petites traces d'adhésif sur les pages de garde). Lithographies en couleurs de Marie Laurencin. Tiré à 1200 exemplaires numérotés. Bel exemplaire, blanc
Seller: Librairie Rouchaleou, MONTPELLIER, FR, France
Katherine Mansfield. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine example of this limited, illustrated edition of Katherine Mansfield's short story collection, The Garden Party'. A first edition of this illustrated edition.With the original dustwrapper and slipcase.With many coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. She was an instrumental figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.The dustwrapper is in an exquisite condition.This work was intially printed in 1939, but the release was postponed until 1947 due to the outbreak of the Second World War.Limited edition of 1200 numbered copies. This copy is unnumbered and therefore out of series.This short story collection was first published in 1922. Mansfield was modernist in style, and was a friend of authors such as D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper and held in the original slipcase. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper is also in an excellent condition, with just some minor sunning to the spine, as is common with this work. Slipcase is slightly faded to the edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright. Just the occasional light spot to endpapers. Pages are otherwise clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2245.71 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition, limited edition, number 708 of 1,200 copies designed and printed by the elite printer Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni, this a notably bright example. The edition is beautifully illustrated with "queer femme illustrations with a Gallic twist" by the important Parisian Cubist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) (Pilcher). Though printed in 1939, the outbreak of the Second World War delayed publication until 1947. The stories contained herein are a selection of Katherine Mansfield's "best" works from across her career; as such, the content slightly differs from the celebrated 1922 edition of the same name. "One of the most highly regarded short story writers of the 20th century" (British Library), Mansfield (1888-1923) left her native New Zealand for good in 1908 and lived a peripatetic, bohemian life in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group in London. Mansfield's experiences of familial estrangement and persistent ill-health served to influence her work, which often deals in themes of anxiety, sexuality, and existentialism. Following her premature death from tuberculosis, she was remembered by Virginia Woolf 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" (p. 227), and by her readers "for her divination of the hatred and cruelties beneath the sweet surfaces of family life; and for her sympathy with the vulnerable, the displaced, and the lonely" (ODNB). Her work, including her journal, retains cult status, particularly among young women. Kirkpatrick D6. British Library, "Katherine Mansfield", accessible online; Alex Pilcher, A Queer Little History of Art, 2017; Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 2, 1978. Octavo. Original green and white patterned cloth, titles to spine in gilt on red ground, top edge yellow, other edges untrimmed. With dust jacket and the publisher's card slipcase. Publisher's note tipped in following the title page. Title page in orange and black. With 16 colour lithographs in the text. Christmas gift inscription to front pastedown. Very light foxing to boards, book block edges, and endpapers; a near-fine copy in the jacket with browned spine and a little creasing to edges. Slight splits to head and foot of slipcase.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Mansfield, Katherine. THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$2342.23 + shipping
Description: With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Pp. [x]+318(last colophon), 16 coloured lithographs (10 full page), the title page printed in red & black, publisher's printed note tipped-in after title page; narrow cr. 4to; patterned paste-papered boards with gilt lettered red title label on spine, edges a trifle rubbed, slight bruise to top edge of upper board near spine, a little faint foxing; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges slightly split, with a couple of tiny chips, the backstrip browned; a little light foxing; The Verona Press, London, 1939[1947]. First edition, limited to 1,200 numbered copies. Kirkpatrick D6. *A selection of 14 of Mansfield's stories, only five of which had also been included in the earlier collection with the same title. Designed by Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed actual publication of this book until 1947, when it was distributed by William Collins. The illustrations are in Marie Laurencin's typical pastel style.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1939.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A fabulous copy. This limited edition of 1200 copies has the ORIGINAL dustjacket and publisher's slipcase. The book is in excellent shape and appears UNREAD. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3497.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 leaves, 316 pp. With 16 original color lithographs by Laurencin. Boards, without dust-jacket, spine rubbed and a small portion of bottom torn. Limited to 1200 numbered copies of which nos. 1-30 were signed by the artist. This is copy number 792.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 10 of 30 de luxe copies, quarto size, 328 pp., signed by Marie Laurencin (twice). Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), born and raised in New Zealand, moved to the UK at the age of 19 where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf; she died at the age of 34 from tuberculosis. This work is a collection of her short stories, wonderfully illustrated by Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), a French painter and an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. She was a member of the circle which included Pablo Picasso and other cubists, and is known as one of the few female Cubist painters (n.b., above info from Wiki). The lithographs in this volume are more traditional, being lovely portraits of the characters evoking the deep emotions of the stories. ___DESCRIPTION: De luxe version bound in turquoise leather and signed by the artist (two signatures, as set forth above), simple embossed ruled borders in dark green on both boards and the spine, tan leather spine label with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, ruled borders in gilt on the turn-ins, title page in rust and black with a decorative border, Publisher's Note tipped in after the copyright page (7.25" by 5"), sixteen colour lithographs throughout the text, colophon page at the rear, this signed twice by Marie Laurencin (once on the page titled "Colophon", again on the colophon page itself), limited edition of 1200 copies of which numbers 1-30 were signed by the artist, this no. 10; small quarto in size (approximately 10" tall), pagination: (i-x), 1-316, Colophon (317-318). The custom box is quarter-bound in turquoise leather, black leather spine label with gilt lettering and decorative rules over natural linen boards, the sides of the box being of ivory cloth, the interior sides of ivory paper. ___CONDITION: Very good plus to near fine overall, with the leather boards being smooth and supple, a strong, square text block, solid hinges, straight corners with a minimum of rubbing, the interior is clean and bright, the original ribbon marker is present, and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; the spine is somewhat sunned, ribbon marker faded at the bottom, some wear on the bottom edges of the boards, some light foxing on the fore-edge of the text block, and some very light toning to the free endpapers from the turn-ins. The custom box is fine, with some sunning to the spine from turquoise to teal. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.