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Edward O'BRIEN & John COURNOS (editors). The Best Short Stories of 1923. 1: English, London: Jonathan Cape, 1924, 8°, contains "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield, original blue cloth (spine faded and worn) [Not in Kirkpatrick]; The Best Short Stories of 1924, No. 1 Engish, London: Jonathan Cape, 1924, 8°, colonial edition, contains "The Samuel Josephs" by Katherine Mansfield, original blue cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (worn) [Kirkpatrick B4] -- Atalanta's Garland. Being the book of Edinburgh University Women's Union, Edinburgh: University Press, 1926, 8°, coloured frontispiece, contains "Two Unpublished Sketches" by Katherine Mansfield, original olive patterned boards backed in cream cloth (spine slightly browned). [Kirkpatrick B7] (3)

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Edward O'BRIEN & John COURNOS (editors). The Best Short Stories of 1923. 1: English, London: Jonathan Cape, 1924, 8°, contains "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield, original blue cloth (spine faded and worn) [Not in Kirkpatrick]; The Best Short Stories of 1924, No. 1 Engish, London: Jonathan Cape, 1924, 8°, colonial edition, contains "The Samuel Josephs" by Katherine Mansfield, original blue cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (worn) [Kirkpatrick B4] -- Atalanta's Garland. Being the book of Edinburgh University Women's Union, Edinburgh: University Press, 1926, 8°, coloured frontispiece, contains "Two Unpublished Sketches" by Katherine Mansfield, original olive patterned boards backed in cream cloth (spine slightly browned). [Kirkpatrick B7] (3)

拍品專文

The Best Short Stories of 1923 is dedicated to Katherine Mansfield. Of Atlanta's Garland, Kirkpatrick notes: "There are at least five variants ... Of the 2,000 copies printed, 950 were bound with white cloth spines and 50 numbered copies with vellum spines. These 1,000 copies were bound by November 1926; a further 250 copies were bound in 1927. The remaining 750 copies were pulped in June 1956. It is possible that the copies with cream paper boards patterned in olive-green ... comprise the 250 copies bound in 1927 and therefore constitute a secondary binding rather than variants."