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Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, 1935.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Friends of SMPL Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. Lectures in America. , 1935.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House New York 1935 First printing. 246 pages hardcover in good condition, no dustjacket. Hand-writing on the art of writing on all end-papers.
Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, 1935.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fairly heavily chipped d/j
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Binding is darkened and shows soil. Top and bottom of spine and corners of binding are rubbed and bumped. Binding has beveled edges.146pp.Content clean, bright and sound with paper slightly tanned. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, 1935.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. From a total of 3400 copies printed, 2330 were in the primary binding, with a frontispiece and the top edge stained grey. The rest were issued without frontispiece, at a later date. No jacket. Inscription to fep from 'Bobbie' dated 1936. Spine unevenly age toned otherwise VG
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
STEIN, Gertrude.. Lectures in America.. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 246 pp. 8vo, original cloth. First edition. Engraved bookplate on pastedown; very slight darkening to spine; otherwise fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition but second issue. Hardcover. 246 pages. A collection of six essays by Stein. A tight very good copy in cloth boards with some darkening to the endpapers and in a very good plus dust jacket with some edge tears, light soiling and some spots to the rear panel and some other light wear. Despite the litany of flaws a solid copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. LECTURES IN AMERICA.. Random House New York: 1935., New York:, 1935.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Beveled covers with red square on frnt cvr and top edge blue. 1st printing Port frontis Very Good w/o DJ with light shelfwear & gutter on bck cvr brown. Very Good w/o DJ with light shelfwear & gutter on bck cvr brown.
Seller: Biblioceros Books, Warrenville, IL, U.S.A.
STEIN GERTRUDE. LECTURES IN AMERICA. RANDOM HOUSE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1935, 1935.
Price: US$56.81 + shipping
Description: HB GREY CLOTH FINE PP246 8V0 Six long essays
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures In America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beige cloth with red title block and black lettering. Small strip of loss to head of spine, heel of spine bumped and rubbed. Tips of corners rubbed to boards. Minor scuffing to boards. Endpapers discolored due to aging binding glue. Text is clean and bright, no marks.
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, NY, 1935.
Price: US$66.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. First state with frontispiece photo by Carl Van Vechten. Very good in a very good dustjacket with minute edgewear, a 1 and 1/2" closed tear to top of the front pane, and toning to the rear panell. Not priceclipped and no markings. Some browning to the endpapers.
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight binding, clean pages. A touch of shelf wear to slightly rubbed dustjacket with minor tears along the edges and two chips, one to top front, the other to bottom of spine, otherwise the book looks Very Good in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. An excellent copy of the First Issue (with frontispiece portrait of Stein) of the First Printing of the First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; 246 pages
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Stein (Gertrude).. Lectures in America. Random House, New York,, 1935.
Price: US$74.08 + shipping
Description: Very nice copy in slightly darkened and worn dust-wrapper Wilson & Uphill A24a First Edition, First Binding, with the portrait frontispiece.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, N Y, 1935.
Price: US$74.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to cover. Previous owner's name inside. Stated First Printing. 246 pages. Includes six essays: What is English Literature; Pictures; Plays; The Gradual Making of The Making of Americans; Portraits and Repetition; Poetry and Grammar. "Confusion comes when they confuse what they are saying with the words they are choosing."
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The book itself quite attractive, the jacket displays a few short tears and a single chip equal in diameter to the head of a thumbtack. The first American edition, published by Random House in 1935. A fine example of the book in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. LECTURES IN AMERICA. Random House ( 1935 ), New York, 1935.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, 246 pages, soiled cloth, name on endpaper, bevelled edges First binding with top edge stained. [Wilson A36a]
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. lectures in America. Random House, 1935.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing-1935. the jacket cover is showing some wear and tear around the edges. The pages of the book are yellowing from age.
Seller: Chudney Books, Briarcliff Manor, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition (first printing stated; this is the first state, with the frontispiece of Stein, and the dark gray topstain, which is in beautiful shape) Near fine/very good (the price-clipped dj has some minor chipping at the spine extremities and some minor scrapes on the front panel)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. Lectures in America.. NY. Random House. 1935., 1935.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with "First Printing" on the copyright page. Second issue without a frontispiece photo of Stein. One of 1,070 copies of the original 3,400 copies. VG+/VG+ in dark brown cloth stamped brightly in black and red on the front boards and the spine. Very clean and tight. With the original price of $2.50 on the front inside flap. With list of Random House Publication titles on the rear panel which is soiled and darkened at the bottom two inches. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket. First Edition with "First Printing" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House [1935], New York, 1935.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original tan cloth in red and black dust jacket, black topstain; 246pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of the author by Carl Van Vechten. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with a few closed tears. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. WILSON A24a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures In America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, yellow-fray cloth, printed in red & black. N.Y.: Random House, (1935). First Edition. First issue, with frontispiece portrait of Stein. First binding; Wilson A24a.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. LECTURES IN AMERICA. Random House, 1935.
Price: US$127.60 + shipping
Description: LECTURES IN AMERICA, Random House, 1935, first edition (first issue), fine in vg dust-wrapper save for some closed tears to the front dust-wrapper panel and some flaking at the head of the dust-wrapper spine.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Lectures In America. New York Random House 1935, 1935.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good plus in a very good lightly soiled dust jacket with one 3/4Ó rubbed spot at upper left corner of the front panel and a couple of small nicks and tears.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Lectures In America. New York Random House 1935, 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Near fine in a very good lightly used dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures In America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Frontis portrait by Carl Van Vecthen. 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wilson A24 Tan textured cloth, top edge stained grey. Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket with piece missing from center of spine Frontis portrait by Carl Van Vecthen. 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. LECTURES IN AMERICA. NY, RANDOM HOUSE, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/2330 FIRST EDITION 1ST BINDING VERY GOOD-FINE
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue binding. Octavo. 246pp. Frontispiece portrait of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten. Endpapers are toned as usual with this title, else fine in very good or better dust jacket with toning, particularly on the spine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. LECTURES IN AMERICA.. RANDOM HOUSE., NY, 1935.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First issue binding in beige cloth, with grey top stain & frontispiece. Near fine in mildly age toned very good+ jacket. (Light offsetting to endpapers. Couple small chips & traces of shelf wear at spine ends on jacket. Spine perfectly readable, but age toned. TAd musty overall. )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Lectures in America. Random House, New York, 1935.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed by Stein on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), minimally rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel. Grey buckram, foxed in the gutters, with red and black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Stein's work of literary criticism that sees her analyze her own work as well as the writing of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Trollope, Whitman, Henry James, among others.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.