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Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Boston: The Four Seas Company, [1922]., 1922.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, 4th issue binding. Octavo, 419 numbered pages, publisher’s blue cloth-backed decorative papered boards bearing a gilt stamped star motif on blue stock, printed paper label to spine (significant rubbing to edges and label, spine ends slightly frayed, a few small drip stains at edges, and one near top of front cover, else a solid, good to very good copy).

Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: Introduction by Sherwood Anderson

Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo bound in quarter blue cloth and grey boards. First edition, second state with no title on front board. Very Good with a faint scuff to paper label; mild rubbing to corners, some rubbing to cloth, with former owner's name in ink to front pastedown. Attractive copy. 419 pp. [AL]

Seller: Mausoleum Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Grey paper over blue cloth, paper spine label. 1st edition, 1st state (lettered binding). Fwd. by Sherwood Anderson. Heavily rubbed corners with underboards exposed, rounded. Moderately frayed extremities. One small abrasion with surface paper loss above "Geo" in title. Split front hinge, reasonably solid binding. Clean interior. Van Allen Bradley lists $300-500 in dust jacket, lacking here. Acceptable reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Press, Boston, MA, 1922.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 419pp.; HB quarter-bound; paleblue w/blue&label; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; corners worn; ft.hinge cracked; some lt.tan w/some pgs.uncut. DJ beige w/blue; heavy rub w/holes; spine sunned w/1x2"chip,spine&holes; chips&tears w/wear on edges. " .translates the rhythm of the spoken personality as directly as possible. " Forward by Sherwood Anderson

Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Co, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 419 pp. First edition, 1st state, with blue cloth spine, grey hard paper boards with dark blue titles. Corners of boards are a bit rounded, paper spine label is chipped and about half missing. Interior hinges are starting but holding, paper somewhat toned as usual. Some pencil notes on the corner of the first free end paper, but otherwise clean and unmarked. A few of the last pages were never cut/opened. Introduction by Sherwood Anderson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages

Seller: Leaf and Stone Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, 1922.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, first binding. Gray boards, blue cloth spine with paste-on label and blue printing. Front cover has title in dark blue at top and at bottom, with Stein's name in the middle. Edge of covers a bit soiled. Spine label heavily soiled. Top edges of pages are a muddy color. Front cover has a blue stain or mark about an inch and a half long. 419 pages. Binding tight. Interior clean.

Seller: Frank Hofmann, Yorba Linda, CA, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS.. The Four Seas Co.,, Boston,, 1922.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First Edition, Second Issue Binding. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 418. Original publisher's blue cloth over grey papered boards, lettered blue on spine label. First edition, second issue binding. Foreword Sherwood Anderson. Slight tanning to spine label, otherwise very good in chipped and creased, good only dust jacket, with considerable loss at spine ends and top edge and heavy tanning and discolouration.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

GERTRUDE STEIN. Geography and Plays. With an introduction, 'The Work of Gertrude Stein', by Sherwood Anderson.. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition in the first state binding. 8vo. 419pp. Paper-covered coarse cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, and with a touch of light spotting to a dozen preliminary leaves. A small area of light offset browning to the rear endpaper and pastedown from a laid-in newspaper clipping. A very good copy of this early Stein collection of stories, essays, plays and verse (her third substantial book). Wilson A5a.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Co., 1922.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: Dark gray mottled paper over blue boards. Paper label to spine. Light wear to spine, else fine. First edition, third binding state. [Robert Wilson - A5].

Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS. The Four Seas Company, 1922.

Price: US$127.60 + shipping

Description: GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS, The Four Seas Company, 1922, lst ed., wear to corner tips and lower edges (as nearly always with this fragile paper board production), else a tight, bright vg+ copy.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Stein (Gertrude). Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, [1922], 1922.

Price: US$136.45 + shipping

Description: Binding and spine label rubbed and worn, but a good copy, browned throughout as usual Wilson & Uphill A5a First Edition, First Binding, upper cover lettered in dark blue.

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Stein, Gertrude. Geography And Plays. Four Seas Press, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$144.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Fourth binding, with blue cloth spine and printed paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine. Exterior is a bit sunned, edges showing wear, but still a very good clean tight copy.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Co., Boston, 1922.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This FIRST EDITION, second binding, hard cover, is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Dust jacket in Fair condition, with surface dirt, edge yellowing and small piece missing on spine, protected in a mylar cover. 417 pages (some uncut), bound in gray paper/blue cloth, with paste on label. Has pencil marking on inside back cover. BINDING AND HINGES STRONG AND TIGHT.

Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Boston: Four Seas Company, 1922., 1922.

Price: US$159.50 + shipping

Description: 1922. Hardcover. Half cloth over mottled paper-covered boards. First edition. later issue (blue clothg spine with paper label; grey mottled paper-covered boards. 419 pp. Corners slightly rubbed. Edges of leaves slightly yellowed. Some gatherings uncut. Ghost of a newspaper clipping or other acidic paper on front endpapers. Overall, very good. Very Good.

Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Boston: Four Seas Company, 1922., 1922.

Price: US$159.50 + shipping

Description: 1922. Boston: Four Seas Company, 1922. 8vo, 419 pp, VG+ in moderately edgeworn dj (dj spine darkened & worn at head & heel; previous owner's label on rear endpaper).

Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.. Boston, The Four Seas Company, 1922., 1922.

Price: US$172.63 + shipping

Description: Boston, The Four Seas Company, 1922. 8°. 419 Seiten. OHalbleinen. Erste Ausgabe. -- Wilson A5(b). Eins von 2500 Exemplaren. Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - First edition first printing. One of 2500 copies. An early volume of Stein's experimental prose, which was intended to capture the techniques of abstraction and cubism that were then current in painting and apply them to literary work. Original publisher's cloth. Fine copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** 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. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A clean copy in a later binding of blue cloth with paper label and gray boards with a gilt star decoration. In an attractive light blue jacket with mild wear. $3.50 price on the jacket spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude. Geography And Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, MA, 1922.

Price: US$175.44 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition in the first state binding. DESCRIPTION: Textured blue cloth spine with paper title plate. Paper covered boards with titles. Some pages remain uncut Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to sharp corner, edges and spine ends. Toned title plate. Light spotting to front board margins. Tightly bound with intact endpapers. Strong hinges. Lightly toned pages with minor spot marks to extreme page edges from spotted text block edge DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 419. Size: 8vo 19.5cm by 13.5cm.

Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom

Stein, Gertrude; Anderson, Sherwood (forward). Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, MA, 1922.

Price: US$199.95 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, 1922. Clean and tightly bound with extremely slight edge wear only, the paper spine label is fine. The contents are tightly bound and unmarked. The dust jacket shows very light edge wear and several small surface marks on spine, otherwise near fine. A very nice copy.

Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bookplate and writing on front free endpaper. First state binding with title and author on the front cover. Corners bumped and rubbed and worn. Spine label has chipping, pieces missing, stain.

Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, second state binding in unclipped jacket. A collection of Stein's writing with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson. As the jacket promised readers in 1922, "Gertrude Stein is still experimenting and still renewing her realization of peoples, people, and things, ways of revealing something. Out of her early experiments has sprung all modern writing". Minor scuffs to jacket and slight loss to the head of the spine (see photos). Bumping to extremities. Bookseller's label (The Grolier Book Shop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge) on front free endpaper. Text is clean and unmarked, with the occasional unopened page. 419pp. 7.75 x 5.5"

Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays. With Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.. Boston The Four Seas Comp ( ), 1922.

Price: US$222.74 + shipping

Description: 419 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. - Unopened. Paper browned. Jacket browned at spine. Some taped tears. Gewicht (Gramm): 472

Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays.. Boston: Four Seas Company (1922)., 1922.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 419 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with a closed tear and a chip (internally mended) to the top edge of the front panel, and some chipping to base and crown of spine, which is toned. Wilson A5b.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude. ANDERSON, Sherwood.. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. 419 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed gray boards in dust jacket. First edition; third state of the binding. A bright, near fine copy in a nice jacket (a little shorter than the book, as issued) with a tiny nick at the bottom of the very slightly sunned spine, and some very light soiling. Very attractive.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

STEIN, GERTRUDE. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: One quarter blue cloth with grey paper to boards. Printed title plate to spine. Some light shelfwear to lower edges, usual browning to outer page edges. Small blue stain to fore edge of page 37/8. Otherwise fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada

STEIN, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. 8vo, boards, cloth back, paper spine label. Boston: Four Seas Co., (1922). First Edition. Second issue binding, mottled gray boards, without lettering on front cover. The gray dust wrapper printed in dark blue is in exceptionally nice condition.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. The Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, Second binding. 419 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wilson A 5b Blue cloth and gray boards. Fine in very good gray printed dust jacket, ends of spine panel slightly chipped

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition in First State binding. Author's name and title (twice) on front cover. Gray paper over blue spine cloth, with paper label on spine. Spine label browning. Name in pencil on front flyleaf. Small spot near lower edge of first few pages. Mild yellowing to text.

Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude.. GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS.. FOUR SEAS., NY, 1922.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition in second state quarter blue cloth with grey boards and gold star motif in lightly chipped very good+ pale blue dust jacket. White printed title plate on spine. (Tiny virtually indiscernible embossed owner's stamp on title page. Top edge mildly soiled. ) ; 419 pages

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays.. , 1922.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Description: Boston: Four Seas Company, 1922. 8vo.; original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label; pp. 419; jacket heavily worn, with central tear and approximately a quarter lost; pages slightly yellowed, some unopened. First edition, fourth binding with less common patterned paper boards in tan, lavender, brown and gold. Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s writing from about 1908 to 1920. Stein was born in America, but moved to Paris when she was 29. In her Parisian salon, the leading figures of modernism, including Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Matisse, would meet. Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, she may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. In the play Accents in Alsace, she gives her views on the town which she entered with the French army after armistice.

Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom

Stein (Gertrude). Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Boston, [1922], 1922.

Price: US$409.36 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Covers and lettering label on spine a little browned and marked and shallow, clean scratch to lower cover, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly chipped and creased later state dust-wrapper; browned throughout as usual Wilson & Uphill A5a First Edition, First Binding, upper cover lettered in dark blue.

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Stein, Gertrude / Anderson, Sherwood - Foreword Introduction. Geography and Plays. The Four Seas Company, Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1922.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 419 pp, 2nd state with fr cover unlettered, black cloth backed 1/8 and slate gray papered boards (5.5" x 7.9"), with white paper print spine label author-title-publisher. Pale blue DJ, dark blue letters, unclipped, Binding tight and square, pages unmarked and clean and well-preserved, exterior crisp with virtually no wear, DJ unclipped, approx 1/4" trimmed off height-vertical, else Near Fine. Size: Small Octavo

Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company, Boston, Mass., 1922.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Description: First edition. First state binding: cloth-backed boards with title and author printed on front cover. Octavo. 419 pages. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Laid in is the publishers' prospectus for the book.Spine label a bit tanned. Top corners of covers slightly bumped. Very good in very good dustwrapper with closed tears neatly repaired.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

STEIN, Gertrude. Geography & Plays. Boston The Four Seas Company 1922, 1922.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition in 1st State binding. 13 x 19.5 cm blue cloth backed grey boards with blue stamped titles to the front and white titles label to the spine. 417 [1]pp. In original dust jacket with $3.50 price on the spine. There is a touch of shelfwear and pushing to the spine tips and a hint of toning to the edges. Internally clean and without name inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket is toned and rubbed on the spine. There is chipping to the spine tips and corners with loss of up to 1.5 cm. The lower joint has some reinforcement with Japanese paper. The book contains the first publication of Miss Furr & Miss Skeene considered to be the first published use of the word "gay" to mean homosexual/lesbian. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Seller: Rainford & Parris Books - PBFA, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom

STEIN, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo, handsomely rebound in full brown morocco, Boston: The Four Seas Co., (1922). First Edition. Fine.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.. Boston, The Four Seas Company, 1922., 1922.

Price: US$606.98 + shipping

Description: Boston, The Four Seas Company, 1922. 8°. 419 Seiten. OHalbleinen mit OUmschlag. Erste Ausgabe. - 2. Bindung (graumelierter Deckel). - Wilson A5(b). Eins von 2500 Exemplaren. An early volume of Stein's experimental prose, which was intended to capture the techniques of abstraction and cubism that were then current in painting and apply them to literary work. A fine copy. First edition in the second issue binding, without the lettering on the front cover, in a near fine dust jacket. Sprache: Englisch. *** 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.. Geography and Plays.. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: 419 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards with paper label, in dust jacket. First edition. A near fine copy in a very sharp jacket with some very slight fraying at the top of the spine. The spine is very slightly browned. The jacket, as issued, is about 2mm shorter than the book.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

STEIN, GERTRUDE. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Co., Boston, 1922.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Quarter navy cloth over grey boards. Paper label on spine in dust jacket with edgewear and two small chips to bottom edge. Inscribed by Stein "Paul Miner (?) Gertrude Stein, Dec (?) 34" with red X through the inscription. This is the second state of the binding. Size: Octavo

Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company Publishers, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this work by the author of The Autobiography of Alice Toklas. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Joanna Graham from Gertrude Stein." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Stein’s writing from about 1908 to 1920. “Here is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even foregone the privilege of writing the Great American Novel, uplifting our English-speaking stage and wearing the bays of the great poets, to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half-forgotten city" (Sherwood Anderson).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude. GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS. BOSTON, FOUR SEAS, 1922, 1922.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION, 1ST STATE OF BINDING VERY GOOD, FRESH COPY

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. The Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 419 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wilson A5 Blue cloth and gray boards. Fine in near fine gray printed dust jacket (spine panel faintly toned). Laid into a quarter crimson morocco dropbox

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 419pp. Blue cloth spine, gray boards, titles in label on spine and printed in dark blue on front board. Spine label chipped at edges but titles intact. Binding solid, spine straight. Wear to corners, particularly upper back corner, which is visibly cracked and tender, with a small piece missing. Lower back corner missing small piece as well. Pages age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Signed on half-title by Stein in black ink and inscribed, "For the [illegible]." Dust jacket is intact, with price on spine and both flaps present. Thin missing section along front edge of jacket crease where panel and front flap meet. Tape repair along upper left edge of front panel. Back of jacket shows crease from top to bottom. Jacket presented in mylar. Uncommon Stein edition, particularly signed. From the library of the late theatre critic, Michael Feingold.

Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.

Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 419pp. Blue cloth spine, paper label. Purple and gray abstract pattern on the panels. The bottom corner of the front panel has been reinforced, there is fraying along the edges of the panels.Tape remnants are along the inner hinges. Internally clean and unmarked. a generous collection of poems, stories and plays—all dating from 1910–1920. Wide range of the author's styles reveal Stein as philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more. Superb sampling of works drew attention to the artistic avant-garde movements of the early 20th century and introduced new directions in experimental writing". This volume is from the estate of Michael Feingold, renowned theatre critic.

Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.

Gertrude Stein. Geography and Plays (First Edition, Association Copy, inscribed by the author to George Middleton). Four Seas, Boston, 1922.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to playwright George Middleton: "To George Middleton / with pleasant memories / Gertrude Stein." Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown. New Jersey-born playwright, director, and producer George Middleton served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1927 to 1929. He is perhaps best remembered today for his instrumental role in creating the Minimum Basic Agreement, a collective bargaining agreement that covers benefits, rights, and protections for Writers Guild of America members. Middleton was also known for his collaborations with Guy Bolton, including the successful 1917 stage comedy "Polly With a Past," basis for the 1920 film adaptation. A collection of stories and plays by Stein, including "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene," originally published in "Vanity Fair" magazine in 1922 and now credited as one of the first stories to use the word gay to mean homosexual. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book moderately rubbed at the corners, with a lightly toned spine. Jacket spine lightly toned, with chips at the corners.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.. Boston The Four Seas Company, 1922.

Price: US$1512.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, first state binding; 8vo; marginal tear to one leaf, seemingly in production; publisher's quarter bound blue cloth binding with light grey paper-covered boards, titles to upper board in black, cream paper title label to spine printed in black, with the dust jacket; a superb copy in the professionally repaired dust jacket with small restoration here and there. An exceptional copy in the particularly uncommon earliest state, of an important early collection by the great American Modernist. Wilson A5b.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company, Boston, Mass., 1922.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition. Second state binding: cloth-backed boards with label on spine. Octavo. 419 pages. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To Gerald and hand in hand we enjoy it all together altogether - with so much affection - Gertrude''. The recipient is Lord Berners (1883-1950) the British aesthete, composer, writer and wit, whose home Faringdon House was frequented by a wide range of artistic luminaries, including Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Igor Stravinsky, Oliver Messel, Cecil Beaton, the Mitfords, H.G. Wells, Tom Driberg, the Sitwells, Constant Lambert, William Walton and many others. Stein and Berners collaborated on the 1937 ballet, A Wedding Bouquet, based on a text by the former and set to music by the latter; the choreography was by Frederick Ashton. A later collaboration, on an opera based on Stein's libretto Dr Faustus Lights the Lights, was abandoned as Berners sank into a period of depression. This has not prevented the libretto in recent years from being set to music and performed by various American experimental theatre groups.Bottom corners of covers a but bumped and rubbed. Very good in torn, rubbed and defective dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom