The Garden Party

First edition, 1200 copies produced by the elite printer Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni and illustrated with queer colour lithographs by the Parisian Cubist artist Marie Laurencin. This anthology volume selects Katherine Mansfield's "best" stories from across her career, and as such the contents slightly differ from her celebrated 1922 collection of the same title.

Publisher's olive-green and cream patterned cloth, red paper lettering piece gilt to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in orange and black, manuscript inscription to front fly-leaf in elegant hand, stone-colored dust jacket printed in pale olive-green.

Though printed in 1939, the outbreak of the Second World War delayed publication until 1947.