The Garden Party and Other Stories (Ltd. The Verona Press Edition 1939)

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London, The Verona Press, 1947 (printed 1939), Hardcover

1st ed. limited to 1200, Very Good

London, The Verona Press. 1939 (1947) 316 pages , 10.25 x 7.5. Hardcover. with dust jacket, designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at his Officina Bodoni in Verona in 1939.  Lacking slipcase. limited to an edition of 1,200 copies, this is no. 1091. Printed in Italy in 1939, on paper made by Enrico Magnani, Pescia, but due to World War II, publication was delayed until 1947. Has a tipped in "Publisher's Note". The "Verona Press wish to make it clear that it is not identical in contents with the standard volume of stories published by Messrs. Constable under the same title." 

16 original full page colored lithographs by Marie LAURENCIN.

A collection of 14 stories: The Tiredness of Rosabel; New Dresses; Something Childish but very Natural; The Little Governess; Prelude; Psychology; Bliss; Miss Brill; Life of Ma Parker; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Mr. and Mrs. Dove; The Garden Party; The Doll's House; A Cup of Tea. 

First and final endpapers partly foxed. Dust jacket partly water-stained and slightly damaged (especially lower spine-end). In all Very Good