Literature
MANSFIELD, Katherine.
In a German Pension.
Stephen Swift & Co., London, n.d. [1911]. First edition, first printing of the author's first book, consisting of only 500 copies of which a large amount went missing or were destroyed after the publisher's bankruptcy. 8vo; 4 + 32pp undated ads. Title leaf with publisher's blindstamp "Presentation Copy". Original blindstamped dark green cloth with spine and front cover lettered in gilt. A fine copy of the author's first book with minor rubbing to extremities only.
A collection of sketches of people and events "in a German pension" which came to the author's attention and which she described (Mansfield left the pension's and people's real names unchanged) while staying in the Villa Pension Müller, run by the Stiegelauers, in Bad Wörishofen/Bavaria. Kirkpatrick 1a.
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