Katherine Mansfield — The Aloe
London, Constable, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A fine copy of this limited edition posthumously published novel by Katherine Mansfield. The first edition of this work. One of 750 copies of this work produced.The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The novel depicts a New Zealand family, configured like Mansfield's own, moving house. It is an expanded rendering of her short story 'Prelude&apos.It was edited and published posthumously by her husband, John Middleton Murray. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper in exceptional condition, with just one minor closed tear to the head of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
