2 Katherine Mansfield first editions are documented on this shelf, from Bliss and Other Stories (1920) to The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Katherine Mansfield title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Bliss and Other Stories — 1920 · Constable & Co.True first is Constable & Co., London, 1920 (Kirkpatrick A4). The decisive first-state point is the mispagination of page 13 as '3'; the copyright leaf reads 'First Published 1920' with no reprint or later-impression notice. Bound in red cloth with the front board ruled/bordered in black; original dust jackets are exceptionally scarce. Constable (London), 1920, is the true first; the first American edition followed a year later from Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1921, so there is no genuine precedence question. This was Mansfield's second collection, following In a German Pension (1911). Later Constable impressions correct the page-13 mispagination and add impression statements; a copy lacking the '13-as-3' error or carrying a reprint notice is not the 1920 first state.
The Garden Party and Other Stories — 1922 · ConstableLondon: Constable, 1922 — Kirkpatrick A5a, with 'First published 1922' on the verso and no later-printing statement. The textual point is the uncorrected misprint 'sposition' for 'position' in the last line of p.103, cited in the Christie's cataloguing; dealers also report errors at pp.134 and 241. Binding state is the more important discrimination: the issued trade binding, as normally found, is blue cloth with…. Constable, London, 1922 is the collected true first (Kirkpatrick A5a), and the ABAA and auction record treat it as such. Alfred A. Knopf issued the American edition in New York the same year, with a second printing following in July 1922 and further printings through 1923; the Knopf is the first American and is collected in its own right. Caveat on the census claim: the sources consulted do not settle the exact…. Knopf's New York printings after the first are stated on the verso, reaching an eighth by December 1923. The chief 'first thus' trap is the illustrated edition with Marie Laurencin's colour lithographs, limited to 1,200 numbered copies (Kirkpatrick D6) — a first illustrated edition, not the first edition, and its D-number should never be quoted for a Constable trade copy. Modern Library reprints also circulate.….

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