The Open Window. The First Volume. October-March 1910-11

(YEATS, Jack B., Katherine Mansfield)

Verlag: Locke Ellis, London, 1911

Beschreibung

First edition. 16mo. 378, [4]pp. Illustrated with many full-page plates reproducing in black-and-white artwork by Jack B. Yeats, Maxwell Armfield, Auguste Rodin, and others. Detailed four-page "Index to Volume One." Publisher's quarter vellum gilt and papercovered boards. Top edge gilt. Faint toning on the spine, a near fine copy with the binding bright, and the text and illustrations very fresh and clean. Prints the first appearance of "A Fairy Story" by Katherina [Katherine] Mansfield, three poems by James Stephens, "The Jolly Drover" by Edward Thomas, and contributions by Frank Swinnerton, Hugh de Selincourt, Yone Noguchi, Herbert Trench, and others. This volume constitutes Katherine Mansfield's first appearance "between boards" (in the publisher's binding) preceding her first book, *In A German Pension*, published in December, 1911. An early short story by Katherine Mansfield (as 'Katherina' Mansfield) and her first appearance "between boards" (in the publisher's binding of Volume One of 'The Open Window'); Mansfield's first book, In A German Pension, was published in December, 1911. (58980) $175.00.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 470131

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Open Window. The First Volume. October-March 1910-11
• Verlag: Locke Ellis, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1911
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • First Books