The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. 1922 Garden City Publishing reprint, Sun Dial Library, 256 pages. Some shelf wear to boards, hinge separating but book intact, in good condition. Book of short stories written toward the end of Mansfield's life, including "At the Bay" and "The Daughters of the Late Colonel."

"It was understood that at eleven o'clock the women and children of the summer colony had the sea to themselves."