Search results for: 'STEIN, Gertrude'
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STEIN, Gertrude. Américains d'Amérique.
Paris : 1933
First edition in French, first printing, inscribed on the first blank to the art dealer "George Maratier who was the first to want it into French and had the courage to toy with all my affection and gratitude. Gertrude Stein". This is a superb association copy.
This is one of 200 press review copies, with "S.P." (service de presse) on the spine... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147549
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STEIN, Gertrude. Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes.
New Haven : 1952
First edition, first printing, of Stein's novel Mrs. Reynolds, a political parable composed during World War II, and five novelettes composed between 1931 and 1936. This book was published as vol. II in the Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 133134
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STEIN, Gertrude. Lucretia Borgia.
New York : August 1968
First edition thus; one of 26 not for sale copies, hardbound and printed on Japon vellum, lettered A-Z (this one V), from an overall edition of 176 copies. The Albondocani Press's edition is the first separate edition and the first complete edition (second overall), of Stein's short play, which was first published, with editorial liberties taken, in... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 84841
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STEIN, Gertrude. An Acquaintance with Description.
London : 1929
First edition, no. 199 of 225 copies signed by the author. Stein signed the limitation slips in Paris and returned them to London to be tipped-in opposite the title page. This is the second work published by the press, found by Robert Graves with his literary partner Laura Riding in 1927. An Acquaintance with Description is part of Stein's explanatory... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 133140
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STEIN, Gertrude. Wars I Have Seen.
New York : 1945
First edition, first printing, of Stein's memoir of her years in France during Nazi rule. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 133148
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STEIN, Gertrude. Operas and Plays.
Paris : 1932
First edition, first printing, one of 500 copies only. This was the penultimate title issued by Plain Edition, the publishers which Stein co-founded with Alice Toklas in 1930. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 133135
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STEIN, Gertrude. Three Lives.
New York : 1909
First edition, first printing, of Stein's first published book. This is from the first issue of 700 copies, with a further 300 copies issued in Britain with a cancel title leaf and altered binding in 1915. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 133132
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STEIN, Gertrude. Things As They Are.
Pawlet, Vermont : 1950
First edition, no. 483 of 516 copies printed. Stein originally wrote this three part novel in 1903 under the title Quod Erat Demonstrandum, but it was not published until after her death. This was the final book published by The Banyan Press. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 133144
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STEIN, Gertrude. Everybody's Autobiography.
London : [1937]
First UK edition, first impression. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 96832
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STEIN, Gertrude. Geography and Plays.
Boston : 1926
First edition, first printing, in the first issue binding, of this collection of Stein's writing from 1908 to 1920. There were four issues of the first edition sheets over 18 years, in variant bindings - this issue with the title on the front cover is the first. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 133133
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STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures in America.
New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, in the first issue binding of grey cloth. This collection compiles six lectures given by Stein at American universities during 1934 and 1935. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 133150
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RANSOM, John Crowe. Grace After Meat.
London : 1924
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "Miss Laura M. Bragg, with the author's cordial regards, John Crowe Ransom, November 17, 1924". Uncommon inscribed; a great association copy.
Laura Bragg (1881-1978) notably co-founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 1920 as part of Charleston's renaissance.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144237
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WILSON, Edmund. Axel's Castle.
New York and London : 1931
First edition, first printing (Scribner's "A"), scarce in the jacket. Axel's Castle, which is numbered among Connolly's 100 Books of the Modern Movement, was an influential study on the roots of Modernism in the Symbolist Movement, with chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Rimbaud. The title relates... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 143829
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WOOLF, Virginia. On Being Ill [in:] The New Criterion.
London : 1926
First edition, first impression, including the first appearance in print of Woolf's On Being Ill, which was written after experiencing a period of severe manic-depression and later first published separately by her at the Hogarth Press in 1930. This is a rare find, and especially so in such good condition.
On Being Ill (pp. 32-45) is here published... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145068
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THEATRE. The Living Theatre. Stein. Picasso. Eliot.
[New York : 1951]
A very scarce program booklet for the 1951-2 season of the Living Theatre, one of America's premier experimental theatre groups, at their first permanent performance space, Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, advertising Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes",... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 132632
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BRYHER. Civilians.
Territet : 1927
First edition, sole printing, of the author's fourth novel, and the only Bryher novel to be published by her own publisher, Pool.
Bryher was the pen name of Annie Winifred Ellerman (1894-1983). She moved in the 1920s Parisian circles of artists and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Her wealth... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 147930