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Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 5 1/2" x 8 3/8", signed limitation leaf, followed by title page with simple design; 1-33 pp. + list of four Seizin titles (given below). Printed on a fine paper with anvil & hammer watermark. Olive green cloth, with titling gilt vertically on spine. No dustwrapper present. Spine shows very slight cocking, and has faded to a tan-green shade, as have front & back cover margins and edges; front & back paste-downs & free endpapers show age-related tanning. Small inperfection to binding cloth on lower area of front cover. Near fine. Scan shows a portion of the spine & the front cover. Purchased from Bill Targ's Chicago Argus Book Shop by Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector, C. T. Lonney (but without marks of his ownership). Contents: [titles of poems] [1] Between Dark And Dark; 2 In No Direction; 3 In Broken Images; 4 To The Galleys; 5 Warning To Children; 6 A Dismissal; 7 Guessing Black Or White; 8 Hector; 9 Against Kind; 10 Midway; 11 Green Cabbage Wit; 12 Castle; 13 Railway Carriage; 14 Back Door; 15 Front Door; 16 The Tow Path; 17 Repair Shop; 18 Landscape; 19 Sandhills; 20 Pavement; 21 Quayside; 22 Return Fare; 23 Single Fare; 24 It was All Very Tidy; 25 A Sheet Of Paper. [List of Seizin titles on last printed page:] Seizin One: Love As Love, Death As Death by Laura Riding. Seizin Two: An Acquaintance With Description by Gertrude Stein. Seizin Three: Poems 1929 by Robert Graves. Seizin Four: No Trouble by Len Lye.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. An Acquaintance With Description. The Seizin Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: 50 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 225. The Seizin Press was founded by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in 1927. Seizin One' was a work by Riding, this volume was Seizin two. Stein's signature slip pasted adjacent to the title page signed in Paris and returned to Seizin in London for insertion. Tiny Gotham Book Mart, NY bookseller label back cover paste-down. Cello adhesion remnants free front and back endpapers. Orig. pebbled white cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, GERTRUDE. An Acquaintance With Description. The Seizin Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: White cloth, gilt. Some sunning and soiling to the covers. Signed on the limitation slip (#220 of #225), signed in Paris before the book's publication in London, on a sticker on the verso of the half-title. Pencil inside cover, but text block is clean. Stein never believed the stream of consciousness style of writing presented here was fully automatic, but she used it extensively in her early creative processes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1081.22 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, NO. 182 OF 225 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [iv], 50, [2]. Original white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little light browning. Binding slightly soiled. Sawyer 65.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Stein, Gertrude. An Acquaintance with Description. The Seizin Press, 1929.
Price: US$1095.00 + shipping
Description: 50pp. Signed by author with edition limitation information on tipped in card. A very nice copy. The Seizin Press was founded by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in 1927.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1113.02 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 50 pages. Cream buckram covers. The second book of Robert Graves' Seizin Press.Number 200 of 225 copies numbered and signed by the author on the printed limitation label on the verso of the half-title page.Free endpapers slightly tanned. Fine in the original glassine dustwrapper which is a bit torn and chipped.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
STEIN, Gertrude.. An Acquaintance with Description.. London, Seizin Press, 1929., 1929.
Price: US$1190.62 + shipping
Description: London, Seizin Press, 1929. 8°. 50 pp. White cloth. First edition. - One of 225 numbered copies. Signed by the author on a tipped-in limitation slip. Spine a bit dark. - Scarce. - Near fine copy. Rare. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
STEIN, Gertrude. An Acquaintance with Description. Seizin Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. White cloth boards. Moderate soiling on the cloth, foxing on the endpapers, a very good plus copy. Copy number 3 of 225 numbered copies Signed by the author on a tipped-in limitation slip as issued. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. An Acquaintance With Description.. London, The Seizin Press, 1929., 1929.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo. Title page vignette by Len Lye. Original cream buckram, stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine. 50 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco clamshell box stamped in gilt. Number 77 of 225 copies, signed and numbered by Stein on the limitation slip tipped-in to the verso of the half title page as issued.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.