The Doves' Nest and Other Stories

First edition. Sm. crown 8vo. Pp. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 197, [3 (blank)]. Publisher's bluish-grey cloth ruled and stamped in navy blue to spine and upper board. Second issue with "First published June, 1923" on the copyright page and lacking the letter "t" on first word of line 8, p. 64. Uncredited Introductory Note, sampling passages from Mansfield's diaries and letters, by John Middleton Murry. The two of them were the inspiration for the characters of Gudrun Brangwen and Gerald Crich in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1920). Preceded by an undated edition of 25 copies in a trial binding "sent out as travellers' samples," [Kirkpatrick A6a].

Sans dustwrapper. Ephemera laid in. Scattered foxing to text-block edges and tanning to endpapers, else Very Good.

A posthumous collection of six stories with a further fifteen left unfinished, dedicated to Walter de la Mare, and published in the year of the author's untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-four. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf regarded Mansfield as her only serious rival.

[Kirkpatrick A6a; Mantz A8.a]