the garden party and other stories by katherine mansfield

227), and by her readers 'for her divination of the hatred and Probably we had something in common which I shall never find in anyone else' (p. Following her premature death from tuberculosis, she was remembered by Virginia Woolf for having 'the only writing I have ever been jealous of. 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. '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. 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.

Though printed in 1939, the outbreak of the Second World War delayed publication until 1947. This edition is beautifully illustrated with 'queer femme illustrations with a Gallic twist' by the important Parisian Cubist artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) (Pilcher).

The total edition was of 1,200 copies, designed and printed by the elite printer Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. First Laurencin edition, copy 8 of 30 deluxe copies specially bound and signed by the artist (this copy signed in pencil on both the Colophon page and the limitation page overleaf).

The garden party and other stories by katherine mansfield