Search Results: something childish and other stories by mansfield katherine

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Constable & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1936. Reprinted. 259 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

London: England: Constable and Co Ltd, 1929. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Very Good. pp. 259 clean tight copy slight wear to spine hinges and top/bottom spine and corners aqua cloth with gold print down spine Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Auckland, New Zealand: Century - Hutchinson, 1988. Book. Illus. by Frances Hodgkins;. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 184 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features Summer House by Frances Hodgkins, courtesy of the Auckland City Art Gallery. This story collection contains: Introduction by C. A. Hankin; Biographical Note; The Tiredness of Rosabel; How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped; The Journey to Bruges; A Truthful Adventure; New Dresses; The Woman at the Store; Ole Underwood; The Little Girl; Millie; Pension Seguin; Violet; Bains Turcs; Something Childish but Very Natural; An Indiscreet Journey; Spring Pictures; Late at Night; Two Tuppenny One Please; The Black Cap; A Suburban Fairy Tale; Carnation; See Saw; This Flower; The Wrong House; Sixpence; and Poison..

London: Constable and Company , Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, pages toned.. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth binding. "First published, 1924" on copyright page. A posthumously published collection of Mansfield's early short stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages .

Very Good. Standard used condition May have some wear, highlighting, notes, creasing, previous owner's name, different cover images, etc (the dust cover may be missing) Might be ex-library book Fast & reliable delivery Exceptional customer service May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability X036

London: Constable & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 258p octavo, foxed Tiny leather bookplate of John Gordan the biographer of Conrad, a very good copy in dust jacket Front flap separated Spine speckled, and darkened.

London : Constable, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: Constable's miscellany of original & selected publications in literature. Physical description: ix, 258 pages ; 19cm. Subjects: New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

London: Constable, 1924. First Edition, Second Issue. Cloth. Good (no DJ). 12mo, 258 pp. COvers darkened, light superficial insect damage to spine, page edges dusty with a couple of tiny stains, endpapers discolored, two crayon marks on rear pastedown, pages tanned.

Toronto: MacMillan Company of Canada, 1924. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 19 x 12.5 cm. 12mo. 259pp. Bound in grey cloth with blue lettering. First Canadian ediiton with "Published 1924" on copyright page and no additional printings noted. Collection of 25 stories. Corners lightly bumped. Small closed tear to head of spine. Name on front free endpaper.

London: Constable, 1924. x, 260 pages. Original cloth ruled and with titling on on upper board and spine. *The second issue of the first edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Constable, 1924. First Edition; second issue. Bookplate; very good plus in dust jacket.

Constable, 1924. 1st edition. Hardcover. Second issue, with First Published 1924 on the verso of the title page. A very good book, boards nice and bright, pages clean, a small label erasure on front pastedown, and one small fox mark to front text block. The dustwrapper bears some neat restoration in a few places, some darkening to the spine and some marks to the spine and rear panel. The author's posthumously published collection of stories.

London: Constable & Co Ltd, (1924). First edition, second issue (the first is very rare) with "First published, 1924" on copyright page. Light offset to endpapers, minor soiling to page edges, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, small crease on front bottom edge, otherwise very good to near fine, in dust jacket with panels and flaps in very good condition, but spine somewhat darkend and rubbed, with closed tear along front spine fold, and a few chips; still, tight and complete.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1924. First Canadian Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 258 pp. Bound in grey cloth boards with lettering in dark blue on front and spine. A collection of twenty-five stories. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, age-toning to pages, mild wear to head of spine. A very nice copy of the scarce Canadian edition.

London: Constable, 1924. 1st . Hardcover. Near fine. Second issue.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1924. Grey cloth with navy lettering on upper board and on spine. Cloth is clean and bright; offsetting of free endpapers; internally clean and crisp. Dust jacket, of uncoated paper, repeats the lettering of the binding; and has two tears and associated creases on front panel, creasing along top edge and darkening of spine panel. A beautiful copy with uncommon dust jacket. Born and raised in New Zealand, this collection published one year after Mansfield death in 1923 at age 34.. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, second issue, and the first regularly published edition, preceded only by an edition of 34 copies issued "as travellers' samples, sent to Australia, or given for early review". Octavo. 259pp. Blue-gray cloth stamped in violet. Faint soiling on top edge, front endpapers have short closed tears at inner hinge, else a fine, bright copy in lightly spine-toned else near fine dust jacket.

1924. London: Constable & Co., (1924). Original grey cloth stamped in violet, with dust jacket. First Edition, second and usual issue (a very few copies, once pegged at 34 in number, were first issued without the "First Published, 1924" on the title page verso). Knopf's American edition, published the same year, was titled THE LITTLE GIRL. This posthumous collection of 25 stories includes writings from as early as 1908 (when the New Zealand native was only 19). The title story, actually "Something Childish but very Natural," is a tale of young love beginning with a chance encounter of two teenagers on a commuter train, replete with the proper awkwardness and ultimately the intrusion of fate. (She wrote it in 1914, when she and John Middleton Murry were living penniless in France; after she died in 1923 at age 34, it was he who had his wife's book published (in his Introductory Note he says "I have no doubt that Katherine Mansfield, were she still alive, would not have suffered some of these stories… Read More