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Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited to 200 copies. Good. Red wraps, toned and with some stains, chipped at the head of the spine, a two inch tear at the foot, rubbed and bumped at the corners. Square, bound with two staples, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The first separate edition of Stein's work about Henry McBridge that originally appears in Vanity Fair in 1917.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: [West Chester, PA: Horace F. Temple, 1917.] First Complete Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 136. Small quarto; publisher's red printed staplebound wrappers; 14pp.; illus. Light wear to wrapper margins, small damp spot to upper cover, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good and sound. From the title page: "This poem first appeared in the Vanity Fair for June, 1917. Owing to lack of space, thirty-five lines were omitted. These have now been restored and the work is intact. It has been referred to as a 'portrait' of Henry McBride, the art critic. It is in fact a genre picture and Mr. McBride is but one of the personages. The 'political quality of Miss Stein's caricature will not be misapprehended by students of her work." WILSON A4.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Description: With orig. woodcut by Jules Pascin. 14 pp. Small 4to. Orig. printed red covers. First complete edition. One of 200 numbered copies. This one no. 154 from the collection of the art critic Henry McBride with his bookplate on inner front cover. The text was first published in and abridged version in Vanity Fair" in June 1917. The woodcut shows a portrait of the art critic Henry McBride. Covers with marginal losses and broken spine. Clean copy.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Copy No. 3 of 200 printed. [2], 14 pp., including one full-page woodcut portrait of Henry McBride, by Jules Pascin. 1 vols. 8 x 7 inches. Important Association Copy. Very scarce and early Stein pamphlet, published in the June, 1917 issue of Vanity Fair, and reprinted separately here in an edition of 200 copies. This copy has an important provenance, as it comes from the library of her friend, the art critic HENRY McBRIDE.* Not only is McBride the subject of this playful "portrait" by Stein with her text and by Pascin with his woodcut, but it was McBride himself who interceded with Vanity Fair to get the piece published in the first place *According to biographer James Mellow, Henry McBride, along with Carl van Vechten, was one of Stein's most important friends in the building of her American reputation. McBride was an art critic for the New York Sun whom Mellow calls "the most astute and entertaining art critic of his generation." From the time that they met in 1913, McBride became a powerful promoter of Stein's work in the States, "he mentioned her frequently and favorably in his columns for the Sun, often quoting her at length. His promotion of her work and her her reputation during the years of World War I kept her name before the public . " A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY. Wilson A4 Stiff red wrappers printed in black. Upper wrapper detached and slightly faded at edges, else very good. With a book ticket on the inside front wrapper which reads: "From the Collection of Henry McBride Art Critic." [2], 14 pp., including one full-page woodcut portrait of Henry McBride, by Jules Pascin. 1 vols. 8 x 7 inches
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.