Item #131609 An attractive group of seven of Mansfield's best-known works, comprising: 'The Garden Party and Other Stories'; 'The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'; 'Something Childish and Other Stories'; 'The Letters ...'; 'Novels and Novelists'; 'Poems'; and 'The Scrapbook ...'. Katherine MANSFIELD.

MANSFIELD, Katherine

An attractive group of seven of Mansfield's best-known works, comprising: 'The Garden Party and Other Stories'; 'The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'; 'Something Childish and Other Stories'; 'The Letters ...'; 'Novels and Novelists'; 'Poems'; and 'The Scrapbook ...'

London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922 to 1939 (mixed editions).

Octavo, seven works in eight volumes; cloth; trifling signs of age and use; overall, in excellent condition.

Full details are as follows: 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' (1922, third impression/ 1922); 'The Doves' Nest and Other Stories' (1923, third impression/ 1923); 'Something Childish and Other Stories' (1924, first edition); 'The Letters of Katherine Mansfield' (two volumes, 1928, first editions); 'Novels and Novelists' (1930, first edition); 'Poems' (1930, new edition/ 1923); and 'The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield' (1939, first edition).

Provenance: C. Jean Bonython, with her Rex Wood-designed bookplate in five volumes, and with her ownership signature in three of them. Lady Constance Jean Bonython (1891-1977), wife of Sir John Lavington Bonython, was a tireless worker for numerous charities in Adelaide. [8 items].