A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

First US edition. Large crown 8vo. Pp. vii, [1], 148. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, titles stamped in white to spine, in a pale blue and cream d/w designed by Vanessa Bell. With a two-page foreword by Leonard Woolf. 1/4000 copies printed.

Review Copy with publication date, Apr. 13 1944, and $2.00 cover price stamped to flyleaf. About fine in moderately toned endpapers, in a very good d/w tanned to spine with some loss to tail and crown, a few short closed tears and chipping at folds of flaps. Internally clean and sound.

A collection of short stories published posthumously, bringing together six of the eight stories from Monday or Tuesday (1921), seven which appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941, and five hitherto unpublished. These include, 'The Mark on the Wall' (1917), 'Kew Gardens' (1919), and 'An Unwritten Novel' (1920), which DNB brands as "less stories than theoretical expositions of the new form of fiction that she had come upon, back in 1905, in the course of tramps in Cornwall. Her aim was to find in the 'moment of being' a climactic inward event, parallel to what her friend T. S. Eliot termed 'unattended moments' and what James Joyce termed 'epiphany'."

[Kirkpatrick A28b]