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Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and prayers.. Random house, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable condition
Seller: Caveat Emptor Used and Rare Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photo of Gertrude Stein on the cover. Lacking the half-title and colophon page. A collection of the author's writings and poems. Slight fraying on the spine. Small speckles and faint pink stain on the front cover. No dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photo of Gertrude Stein on the cover. Lacking the half-title and colophon page. A collection of the author's writings and poems. Slight fraying on the spine. Small speckles and faint pink stain on the front cover. No dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, no dustjacket, the brown cloth has tanning, especially on the spine, mild tanning to the edges of the pages, the corners show wear and the spine-ends are frayed, the original paper spine-title has surface-wear, the binding is tight and clean and the text is fine, an inscription is also present on the first blank end-paper
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd printing. Lacking dj. Full cloth binding, rubbed and dulled, with chipping paper title label on spine. Prior owner's name inked on front flyleaf, and endpapers toned, gutters moderately so. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Seller: Turn-The-Page Books, Skyway, WA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 264pp.; HB brwn.w/brwn.&maroon label; slight rub w/wear on edges&corners; bookplate (Witter Bynner) w/residue; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. Thoughts on artists
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown 1/4 cloth, pictorial paper-covered boards, title label mounted on spine panel. Covers are mildly foxed/tanned, most prominently along fore-edges; title label is chipped along edges and shows mild surface rubbing in a few areas. Text block edges typically tanned. Firm binding. Stated 2nd ptg. (of the Random House edition). Library book plate mounted inside front cover, with glue residue and mild surface loss inside back cover from circulation pocket removal, otherwise unmarked as ex-libris copy. 264 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS. Random House, 1934.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 264 pp; Stated first edition, cloth spine, paper title label on spine is half gone else a very nice clean and attractive book, pages a touch age toned.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. 8vo. Cloth. 264 p. Ocher cloth boards with paper title label on spine. Stein presents a collection of her word portraits, presented as vignettes and poem-like creations. They include portraits of her contemporaries, including Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Eric Satie, Juan Gris, T.S. Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Edith Sitwell, Mabel Dodge, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and many more. A neat, clean copy with edgewear. Endpapers tanned. Very good+.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. Portraits and Prayers (First Edition). Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Random House, New York, 1934. First edition. Second (2nd) printing. A near-fine copy in a good jacket. A clean, unmarked copy, with price ($2.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has toning to spine, and chipping and tears at extremities (as pictured). Light mildew odor (as expected). A nice copy of a scarce title on its own.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Printed spine-label quite darkened else very good lacking the fragile glassine dustwrapper. Slip of paper laid in presenting the book from Carl Van Vechten to actress Marian Seldes: "Love to Marian from Carlo."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second printing. Staining on the boards, good only in near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second Printing. Very Good in a Fair jacket, ($2.50), split in two at the rear edge of the spine, generally toned, chips and tears throughout. Tan buckram, frayed at the bottom edge, with a paste-down label on the spine. Square, front hinge a bit loose, some mustiness. Stein's "album of intimate characterizations of her friends," including Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, T.S. Eliot, Cocteau, Hemingway, Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, among others.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits And Prayers. Random House; NY; 1934/nd/FE, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: ; 264 pp.; Ill.Bds; F-; The original jacket was cellophane with printed paper flaps.a format guaranteed to disappear.it has here. The spine label is darkened. . . Wilson=A22.a. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. Portraits and Prayers.. NY. Random House. 1934., 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page. Scarce: Only 1,800 copies printed. VG- in cloth boards with a photo of Stein on the front panel. With reddish buckram spine and paper label. Scarce. First Edition with "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. Portraits and Prayers.. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped, but for small rubs to spine label and minute speckled area to rear board. 264pp. Text clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Q13375
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Stein, with date (April 20, 1937) directly below, at upper corner of front endpaper, with brief gift inscription signed "Maysch" -- ? The date and the inscription appear to be in the same hand. Photo on request. Pictorial Hardcover with paper spine label on cloth spine. Maroon top stain. Moderate wear/aging/soiling to covers. Wear/creasing to bottom corner of spine label. Binding is firm. Light soiling/age toning to endpapers; otherwise interior is age toned, with limited mild soiling/spotting in margins.
Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. Portraits and Prayers.. New York Random House ( ), 1934.
Price: US$661.24 + shipping
Description: 264 pp. Illustrated Original cloth. First Edition. - With dedication to Ursula Toomey by the author on flyleaf. - Exlibris. Paper slightly browned. Binding mildly dusty. Gewicht (Gramm): 636
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Gertrude Stein. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. 8vo, 1/4 buckram on paper boards with a photo of Stein on the cover, paper spine label, top edge stained purple. Very Good: binding tight and square, just a touch of rubbing at the corners, the spine label is toned but not chipped, one very small spot of fraying of the buckram, front hinge starting, the black prelim is present but separated. Signed by Stein at the top of the ffep, dated March 34
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS. Random House: NY, 1934.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.25 x 6", rough cloth backed pict boards, 264pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped, spine label browned and chipped, pp toned. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "For Veronica Hutchinson.Cleveland Dec 22/'34" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, GERTRUDE STEIN.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Some spotting on the boards and jacket, very good in pictorial boards in very good original fragile unprinted glassine dust jacket with affixed printed flaps as issued. Signed by the author on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1113.09 + shipping
Description: New York, Random House, 1934. 1 Bl., 264 Seiten. First edition, second printing, but in the first issue binding; 8vo. Rough woven maroon and orange cloth spine over pictorial linen cloth; paper label on spine. Lightly soiled, but very good. - Signed and inscribed by Stein while on her American tour, on the night of April 2, 1935, when she stopped off in Bakersfield: "For Rose . Gertrude Stein, Bakersfield, "35." - Wilson A22b - noting only two known copies of the printing in the first issue binding. This is only the second known copy which is inscribed and signed. 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
Gertrude Stein. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition; A Fine book in the very rare acetate jacket. SIGNED, dated, and inscribed by the author to the front free paper. A beautiful copy of this collection of lectures Ms. Stein was planning for US universities upon her return from Paris; the lectures give critiques of many of her celebrity friends including Picasso, Cezanne, Sherwood Anderson, and of course Ernest Hemingway. Scarce in the first edition with the jacket and in this condition, rare indeed signed by Stein. This copy is in Fine condition with a square, tight binding, bright spine lettering and a sharp, crisp photo of Stein to the front board, and clean, white pages throughout; the book does show a slight over opening to the first few pages and moderate foxing to the rear free paper and paste down. Housed in a clean and bright good to very good acetate jacket that is split at the spine and the front flap but is still intact and otherwise sharp. A magnificent example of this title, made all the more desirable by Stein's signature and having the original acetate jacket. Not price clipped ($2.50 intact), not ex-library. Protected in a Mylar cover and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.