The Garden Party and Other Stories
London: The Verona Press, 1939. Marie Laurencin. Limited Edition. 4to, 10 x 7 inches (255 x 175 mm); (i–x), 316, colophon (2); publisher's note bound in after title page. Sixteen color lithographs throughout the text. Designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at Officina Bodoni in Verona in the autumn of 1939 using Centaur Type. Watermarked paper by Enrico Magnani, Pescia. Hard bound, covered in handmade green patterned paper, gilt title on burnt-orange calf ticket on spine; lightly rubbed at bottom of boards and spine edges, but binding is tight and the pages are clean and fresh.
Publisher's Note on smaller cream paper bound in after title.
This is copy no. 788 out of 1200 numbered copies.
This work is a collection of short stories by Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888 – 1923) who was born and raised in New Zealand but moved to the UK at the age of 19 where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf; she died at the age of 34 from tuberculosis. Wonderfully illustrated by the French painter Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. She was a member of the circle which included Pablo Picasso and other cubists, and is known as one of the few female Cubist painters (n.b., above info from Wiki). The lithographs in this volume are more traditional, being lovely portraits of the characters evoking the deep emotions of the stories.
Condition: Near fine.
Item number: 1758
Price: $400.00
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