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2nd Printing. 12 Stories by the critically revered, major award-winning, immensely gifted author. Illustrated by renowned, period artist Zhenya Gay. Beige cloth binding with brown lettering and woman reading book aside lying dog illustration on front cover. 215 pages. Gift inscription to original owner and separate original owner's name and 1939 date on front endpapers. A VERY GOOD, CLEAN, TIGHT COPY! GB2

STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD, selected by J. Middleton Murry, illustrated by Zhenya Gay, hardcover, stated 2nd printing, 1934 (1930). BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in very good condition, with no tears, dogears, but there are several check marks by titles on the Table of Contents page. There is a bookplate of a prior owner affixed to the first free endpaper. Not a library book or remainder. The beige cloth boards are in good condition (discoloring and fading along the edges and spine, bumped corners and spine, a few spots on the back board). 9 ½ x 7, 215 pages, 27 ounces. XX [From Wikipedia] Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; born 14 October 1888, died 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. After being raised by her parents and her beloved grandmother, she began school in Karori with her sisters before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahapuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France in 1923, aged 34. XX Her husband, J. Middleton Murry selected the stories for this volume, first published in 1930.

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Size: 123x12x80; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!