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Lot 70
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
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$250
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(Illustrated & Priv...
(Illustrated & Private Press) 1 Vol. (Laurencin, Marie, illustrator.) Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party and other stories. London: Verona Press, (1939) [1947]. #97/1,200. Large 8vo, original white-decorated green boards, orange morocco spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; minor wear, dust jacket (very minor occasional edge wear, a few small spots and one small blister to spine panel). With 16 color lithographic illustrations by Marie Laurencin. Early owner's Christmas gift presentation dated 1948 on front free endpaper recto, but internally clean. Printed in 1939, but issued in 1947. Bright, tight copy with attractive original dust jacket in original slipcase (joints starting to split).