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Gertrude Stein. The Making of Americans. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1934.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 2nd Printing, as stated. Rosy boards are in Very Good condition. Really lovely. Tight clean bright. Interior is immaculate with exception of previous owner very nice book plate to first paste down. Super stellar copy. No jacket.
Seller: Cream Petal Goods, New Paltz, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 416 pages. First edition (so stated) of Gertrude Stein's first novel. Some underlining and marginal ntes, all in light pencil. Notes for review on blank pages following the text. Not sure who the reviewer was. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a light lean to the binding with the head of the binding just starting to bow away from the case, very small bumps to spine ends and cover corners, a touch of smudging to edges of text block, and slight sunning to the spine, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS The Hersland Family. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1934.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Peach cloth cover has modest wear, light soiling, and toning/foxing but in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. ; 0 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family. By Gertrude Stein, preface by Bernard Fay, and published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1934, 416 pp, hardcover binding with original dust jacket. In good condition. Dust jacket has some age-related toning and wear that has caused some tearing. Covers and spine beneath the dust jacket have some age-related toning and wear that has caused slight bending, tearing, and discoloration. The first inside page has a newspaper clipping stapled on, entitled "Psychiatrists 'Explain' Gertrude Stein's Works". Pages have age-related toning and foxing. Hinges have some wear, but pages remain attached and generally have good support throughout. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. Getrude Stein was an American novelist, playwright, poet, and art collector. She hosted a Paris salon after moving there in 1903, attracting attention from writers and artists such as Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse, and more. Her influence on twentieth century literature remains relevant to modern audiences. A great collector's item. Any issues with hinges or binding due to age or wear could provide an excellent opportunity for restoration or rebinding, if desired. RAREA1934BDFB JR1111
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First abridged edition with "first edition" on the copyright page. One of Stein's 'hermetic' works: "The story of an American family, of their descendants and their friends" (jacket). American novelist, poet, art collector, and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946) hosted the Paris salon, a meeting place for modernist artists and authors. She attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1897 at a time when men dominated the field. While at Hopkins, she had an 'erotic awakening' and became infatuated with political activist, Mary Bookstaver and her female lover. The failed love triangle led to Stein and her brother moving to Paris, beginning an incredible modern art collection, publishing novels, and cultivating the Paris salon. Bound in pink cloth boards with black title to spine and front cover. Slightly rolled spine, cloth faded where the dust jacket is missing pieces, otherwise very good condition. In rubbed, soiled, unevenly faded dust jacket missing good-sized pieces. The jacket is red with white title to spine and front panels. 416 pages. LIT/102716.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ]xxiv], 416pp [short tears, edge wear, mild rubbing and soiling to dust jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: David H. Gerber Books (gerberbooks), Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 416 pages, 8vo. Scarce in dust-jacket. Jacket unclipped: at $3.00. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Preface by Bernard Fay. Typography by Robert Josephy. Printed and bound in the US by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., Rahway, N.J. Reddish-pink woven cloth boards with red-stamped titles along spine and front cover. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many small tears and missing pieces along edges and spine, 1-inch by 1/2-inch missing piece at bottom right corner of front cover, moderate spine fade and fading on front cover, some light tanning on back cover, tears have been reinforced by previous owner with with paper tape on inside. DJ in mylar. Previous seller's small bookplate has been partially removed from inside back cover. Very light tanning along page edges. Very light rubbing along cloth board edges. Otherwise volume is tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans. The Hersland Family. Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1934. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) probably "completed" this modernist novel in 1912, but it seems to have been under rather constant revision afterward. Excerpts were published several times; and a small edition (500 copies) was published by Contact Press in 1925. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition (stated first edition). It is, however, edited and shortened by Bernard Fay. Fuller, more complete editions have been recently published (1966 and 1995). Orange cloth bindingwith brown lettering. The text is clean and fresh; 416 pages. There is a hint of a bump to one corner and (perhaps) a fade to the topstain, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is complete, but is worn and chipped along the edges. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. The Making of Americans.. NY. Harcourt, Brace, and Company. 1934., 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With "first edition" on the copyright page. This is the first abridged edition according to Wilson. A bookplate with: "Presentation Copy for Geraldine Gordon with the Compliments of Harcourt, Brace and Company" has been affixed to the front endpaper. NF/VG in reddish-pink woven cloth stamped brightly in red. Dustjacket is worn and torn (with two 2" closed tears at top of front panel); and priced at $3.00. With light rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine and light edge-wear. Scarce in jacket. First Edition. With "first edition" on the copyright page. This is the first abridged edition according to Wilson.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Near fine in a bright, near very good dust jacket with small nicks and tear mostly on the front panel. One of Stein's major works, an experimental novel, completed in 1911 but not published until much later.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Making Of Americans: The Hersland Family. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG in Good dust jacket with rubbing & edge wear. Novel about an American family & their descendants & friends. Fiction, Novel
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. The Making of Americans. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1934.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Neat initials else fine in a bright, very good plus dustwrapper with slight loss at the foot, and small nicks and tears at the crown. One of Stein's major works, an experimental novel, completed in 1911 but not published until much later.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Making Of Americans: The Hersland Family. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1934.
Price: US$1300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Terra cotta cloth in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Gertrude Stein on the half-title. Spine slightly slanted, light soiling to cloth, offsetting to end papers, else very good in a very good dust jacket with minor chipping and sunning to spine. Rarely found signed.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, first printing, signed by the author on the half-title. This work was first published in book form in Paris in 1925 and in the US in 1926. The present edition is edited and shortened by Stein's close friend Bernard Faÿ (1893-1978), who contributes the preface. Excerpts of the novel first appeared in 1924 in the Transatlantic Review, after Ernest Hemingway convinced the editor, Ford Madox Ford, to accept Stein's work. The following year, the entire novel was published by Contact Press in Paris, in a limited edition of 500 copies, of which 100 were exported for an American edition published by Albert and Charles Boni in 1926. It wasn't until 1966 that the full novel appeared again, published by Something Else Press. Bernard Faÿ and Stein were lifelong friends; Faÿ has been reported as saying that the three most important people that he had met were Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Andre Gide (Kingsbury). Faÿ was the primary translator of Stein's works into French, and despite his anti-Semitism, he protected her and Alice B. Toklas during the Nazi occupation of France; Stein wrote a letter on Faÿ's behalf when he was tried as a Nazi collaborator, and later contributed financially to his escape from prison. Loosely inserted into this copy is a 20-page New Yorker article, "Someone Says Yes To It, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and The Making of Americans", by Janet Malcolm, 5 June 2005. In the article, she praises the vision of the book, while lamenting its length: "It is more a monument than a text, a heroic achievement of writing, a near-impossible feat of reading". Edward M. Kingsbury, "Gertrude Stein Articulates at Last", The New York Times, 3 September 1933. Octavo. Original pale brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in reddish-brown, top edge red. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Light soiling to top edge of front cover, a few trivial marks to foot of spine and edges, lower edges of boards a touch rubbed. A near-fine copy in jacket, tiny chips to spine ends and corners, two short closed tears to head of rear panel and front panel, rear panel a touch soiled, light rubbing and creasing to extremities, very bright indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom