Katherine Mansfield — The Aloe
London, Constable & Co LTD, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A superb limited first edition of this posthumously published novel by Katherine Mansfield, in the original dust wrapper. The limited first edition, of which only 750 copies were printed.In the publisher's original price-clipped 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 original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the tail of the spine. A few very light marks to the cloth. Minor edge wear and handling marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
