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, and issued 13 April 1944.

Rental Library details stamped to flyleaf. Paste residue to endpapers and d/w flap edges, off-setting to endpapers, slight chip at lower fore-corner of f.f.e.p., else very good in complete d/w. Internally clean and crisp.

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eight stories from Monday or Tuesday (1921), seven which appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941, and five hitherto unpublished.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]