Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 1170 (1200) copies set in Centaur and printed in black (the title-page in reddish-brown and black) on Magnani hand-made paper. Illustrated with 16 coloured lithographs. Patterned cloth-covered boards, green and white, red leather spine label with gilt titling. Grey paper dust-jacket, printed in green, somewhat chipped and slightly soiled on the front panel. Some spotting to fore-edge. Lacks card slipcase. A very good copy. Printed at the Officina Bodoni and distributed by Collins in 1947.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. Verona Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$551.03 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First thus, limited to 1200 copies with 16 colour lithographs by Marie Laurencin. A near fine copy in the dust wrapper with publisher's slip loosely inserted, complete with the slipcase, which is a bit rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Katherine Mansfield. THE GARDEN PARTY and Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: #931/1200 COPIES WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY MARIE LAURENCIN. Neat bookplate on inside front cover else clean and unmarked. A fine hardcover book in a near fine dustjacket and slipcase. The jacket is slightly darkened on its spine and the light gray paper shows a touch of soil. The publisher's box is marred by a gift inscription of a previous owner. A nice edition of Katherine Mansfield which is highly desirable for its colored lithographs.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1170 (1200) copies set in Centaur and printed in black (the title-page in reddish-brown and black) on Magnani hand-made paper. Illustrated with 16 coloured lithographs. Patterned cloth-covered boards, green and white, red leather spine label with gilt titling. Grey paper dust-jacket, printed in green. Lacks card slipcase, else a fine copy. Printed at the Officina Bodoni and distributed by Collins in 1947.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2171.58 + shipping
Description: [12]+16pp. 4to. Original decorated paper-covered boards in dustwrapper, slightly rubbed, minor wear to extremities. Coloured illustrations. Tipped-in publisher's note. Foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Edition limited to 1200 copies.
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party And Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition, with color lithographs by Marie Laurencin, limited to 1200 numbered copies [Kirkpatrick D6; bibliographer states: "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947"]. With Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Designed by Hans Mardersteig, and printed at the Officina Bodini, on handmade paper. 4to. [Connolly 100 Modern Movements, Number 40]. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888-1923) 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. Artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), cubist painter and printmaker, was born in Paris; she was associated with Picasso, Picabia and Delaunay, and had friendships with Apollinaire, Braque and Natalie Clifford Barney. Slight rubbing at base of spine and on bottom edge of covers, else a fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket; gray printed jacket has a few small tears at crown of spine, three-inch tear at edge of lower spine, front panel has two-inch tear at top edge (with two early tape mends on verso), few small, early, tan stains at base of spine and lower edge of front panel, else the front panel is quite fresh and bright With Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Designed by Hans Mardersteig, and printed at the Officina Bodini, on handmade paper. 4to First illustrated edition, with color lithographs by Marie Laurencin, limited to 1200 numbered copies [Kirkpatrick D6; bibliographer states: "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947"].
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MANSFIELD, Katherine. The Garden Party and Other Stories. The Verona Press, London, 1947.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First illustrated edition, with colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Tall octavo. Original green pastepaper over boards with printed red paper spine label gilt. Slight foxing on the front fly, still easily fine. One of 1200 numbered copies (the first 30 were signed) designed by Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. This copy is nicely Inscribed by Laurencin in French in 1949, with an elaborate filigree decoration surrounding the inscription.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.