The Aloe

by Katherine Mansfield

$350 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1930. 8vo., viii , 162 pp., printed in red and black. Original brown buckram lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, other edges uncut, deckled, and original brown paper dust jacket. Jacket has some minor chipping, otherwise a near fine copy. Publisher’s postcard inserted at front. § First edition, one of 750 copies. A novella by Katherine Mansfield, the longer version of the short story “Prelude,” edited and

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