Product code: FIRST UK EDITION, The Aloe, Katherine high quality Mansfield, 1930
London: Constable & Co, 1930. G/G. First UK edition and first printing, one of 750 printed. Brown cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Wear to boards that are slightly bowed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Sales tag from J.W. Robinson Department Store in Los Angeles on back paste-down. The dust jacket is unclipped (15/- net) with chips and creases and tape repair on the front corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 162 pages. 6 x 9" tall. Introduction by John Middleton Murry “The Aloe” is Katherine Mansfield's only novel, high quality which she did not publish. She wrote it to crystallize the memories of her childhood and then reworked it to create her short story, “Prelude”. After Mansfield's death, her husband, John Middleton Murry, edited and published “The Aloe” and restored its original length, detail, and texture.
London: Constable & Co, 1930. G/G. First UK edition and first printing, one of 750 printed. Brown cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Wear to boards that are slightly bowed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Sales tag from J.W. Robinson Department Store in Los Angeles on back paste-down. The dust jacket is unclipped (15/- net) with chips and creases and tape repair on the front corners (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 162 pages. 6 x 9" tall. Introduction by John Middleton Murry “The Aloe” is Katherine Mansfield's only novel, high quality which she did not publish. She wrote it to crystallize the memories of her childhood and then reworked it to create her short story, “Prelude”. After Mansfield's death, her husband, John Middleton Murry, edited and published “The Aloe” and restored its original length, detail, and texture.