The Aloe.
London: Constable, 1930. First UK edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy of this collection of three stories, limited to 750 copies, with a Rockwell Kent designed bookplate for Maxwell Steinhardt, who was a lawyer and avid book collector.
Mansfield left New Zealand at age 19, settled in England a was friends with leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group, such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Lady Ottoline Morell. She was an important figure in the modernist movement.
Introduction by John Middleton Murry, Mansfield's husband, and published posthumously. In the publishers brown paper dust jacket. 8vo, (viii) 162pp. Orig. brown buckram, bright gilt on spine. Dj dusty with a couple of small chips, priced 15/. Slt. foxing on endpapers. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Owner's bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt (1889-1997) whose Rockwell Kent bookplate is dated 1929 in the collection of RISD. Very good overall. Item #28774
Price: $250.00