In A German Pension

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. forest green cloth with very fresh printed spine label. Fine in dust wrapper lacking half centimeter at head and foot of spine, and with light dampstain lower front cover corner.. 199 pages. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. Mansfield first book written at the age of 21 in 1911. Two years later she married J. Middleton Murray, eminent British critic. A New Zealander, this book, a collection of short stories was out of print for 14 years. Mansfield died at the early age of thirty-four in 1923, the promise of a distinguished literary career unfulfilled. In scarce dust wrapper, bookplate.