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Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining Room Floor. Banyan Press, no place, 1948.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Essays, prose. Limited edition, #240 of 626 copies. Covers rubbed, spine faded, light edge wear. Interior clean and tight, slightly musty.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood On The Dining-Room Floor.. Banyan Press [c1948], 1948.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Binding is heavily rubbed overall but not worn through. ; Square 8vo 8" to 9"; [5], 79, [1] pages; Red cloth with marbled boards. **One of 600 numbered copies of a total edition of 625. Donald Gallup: ".one of Gertrude Stein's rare attempts to create a type of literature which she had always loved to read - the detective story." Wilson A47.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Book is in excellent condition. Limited edition of 626, of which this is copy No 547.;
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #532/600cc. Covers edgeworn. Deckled edges occasionally spotted.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. BLOOD ON THE DINING-ROOM FLOOR.. The Banyan Press: np, 1948.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8.25 x 6.75, red cloth backed marbled boards, 80 pp, covers lightly rubbed, spine rubbed and darkened, hinges loose, minor offset from title page else a nice copy in a well worn slipcase. LIMITED TO 626 NUMBERED AND LETTERED COPIES (this one #383).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining Room Floor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition limited to 626 numbered copies. Shelfwear to boards. Two-inch split to corner of slipcase.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude (foreword by Donald Gallup). Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 534 of 600 copies. Square octavo bound in red cloth with marbled, paper-covered boards. Condition: minor rubbing to edges of covers; spine cloth sun-faded; else near fine. 80 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining Room Floor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy numbered 464 of 600. 1/2 cloth and marbled paper over boards in publisher's blue slipcase. Nice copy, lacking glassine jacket.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press, (Pawlet, Vermont), 1948.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Introduction by Donald Gallup. Spine-lettering a trifle dull and some rubbing at the edges of the boards, very good or better in lightly rubbed, near fine slipcase. Lacking the glassine jacket. Copy number 181 of 600 numbered copies, of a total edition of 626. Stein's entry into crime stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor.. [Pawlet, Vermont] The Banyan Press [1948]., 1948.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. 1 page introduction by Donald Gallup. Original /12 red linen over blue marbled boards (minor rubbing). Very good. 80 pages. As issued, without dust jacket. Enclosed in the original publisher's blue board slipcase. Previous owner's blindstamped name. Number 541 of 626 numbered copies.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining Room Floor. Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: HC fine with some discoloration from glue at inside binding. Glassine VG with tiny chip at top spine, box good with small scuffing on spine Fine in fine glassine wrapper, slipcase is slightly worn HC w/glassine wrapper in slipcase
Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. Blood on the Dining Room Floor.. Banyan Press,, 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 97 of an edition limited to 626 copies, of which 26 are lettered. Square 8vo. Quarter-bound in red cltoh, marbled boards. Gilt titling on the spine, which has faded. Wear to some edges and corners. Both front and rear hinges have brown spotting. In a slipcase showing edge and corner wear.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor.. The Banyan Press, N.p., 1948.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 80 [1] pp. 8vo, original cloth-backed marbled boards in slipcase. No. 340 of 626 copies. Lightly rubbed at edges; slipcase also rubbed.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 626 copies, this is copy #124. Quarter cloth with marbled boards (slightly worn at the edges). Scarce in original blue slipcase. Forward by Donald Gallup.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. BLOOD ON THE DINING-ROOM FLOOR. The Banyan Press ( 1948), No place, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, 79pp., clothbacked marbled boards; glassine dj; scuffed blue publisher's slipcase No. 415 of 626 numbered copies. Stein's version of a mystery novel. Foreword by Donald Gallup. [ Wilson A47]
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining Room Flor. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Banyan Press 1948. 8.25"x6.75" 1-4+1-80pp. Limited edition of 625 copies - bound in red cloth with blue marble paper sides. Top and bottom edges trimmed, foredge deckled. Very light wear to marble paper edges - otherwise a nice clean copy- comes in the publishers slipcase.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press [1948], [Pawlet, Vermont], 1948.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to. [6], 2-79, [9] pp. Quarter red cloth over marbled boards with gold lettering on the spine. With a glassine wrapper housed in a navy slipcase. Title page with a red decorative illustration of blood. Number 355 of 626 copies. Foreword by Donald Gallup. Wilson A47. Limited edition released before the trade edition. A nice copy. A Near Fine book with the wrapper toned and slightly chipped; slipcase shows a touch of rubbing.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. The Banyan Press, (Pawlet, Vermont), 1948.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Introduction by Donald Gallup. Spine-lettering a trifle dull and a little rubbing at the edges of the boards, else fine in lightly rubbed, near fine slipcase with a small Grove Press sticker - Grove distributed the title. Lacking the glassine jacket. One of 600 numbered copies, of a total edition of 626, this is copy number 407. Stein's entry into crime stories.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 393 of 600 copies. 79 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gertrude Stein's Detective Story. Wilson A47a Red cloth-backed boards, fore edge uncut. Near Fine in original card slipcase with some superficial wear and spine fading)
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.