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STEIN, Gertrude.. Things As They Are.. The Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont, 1950.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 88 pp. 8vo, publisher's gray cloth with printed paper label on spine. First edition; No. 169 of 516 copies. Sunning to label, with one tiny chip, not affecting any of the lettering; otherwise the cloth has just the slightest of rubbing to the top of the spine. Much nicer than usually seen.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Stein Gertrude. Things As They Are; a novel in three parts. Pawlet, CT: The Banyan Press, 1950.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 145 of an edition of 516 copies, 26 of which are lettered. 8vo. Grey cloth with title label on the spine. The label and the spine generally have darkened. Evidence of tape since removed shows on both the front and rear free end-papers. The last book published by the Banyan Press.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. Things As They Are.. Pawlet, Vermont: The Banyan Press, 1950, 1950.
Price: US$288.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 82 of 516 copies, "set by hand in Bodoni face and printed on Ingres d'Arches" (colophon); this copy has the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. Stein originally wrote this three-part novel in 1903 under the title Quod Erat Demonstrandum, but it was not published until after her death. This was the final book published by the Banyan Press, a small press which also published works by John Berryman, André Gide, Stephen Spender, and Wallace Stevens. Wilson A49. Octavo. Original grey cloth, paper spine label printed in black, edges untrimmed. A few light marks to cloth, a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
STEIN, Gertrude. Things As They Are. A Novel in Three Parts. Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont, 1950.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Tall octavo. 88pp. Tannish-grey cloth with publisher's printed paper spine label. Slight tanning on the spine label, else near fine issued without a dust jacket. Written by Stien in 1903 but published here for the first time. Copy 452 of 490 numbered copies. Nicely printed by the Banyan Press, this was the last book printed by the Press.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. Things as They Are.. The Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vermont, 1950.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in dull grey cloth, spine label, without jacket as issued. Fine Press. A Limited Edition, #213/516 copies, the whole edition, printed letterpress on laid paper, hand-numbered on colophon. All edges untrimmed. Spine slightly toned but label clean and unmarred. 88pp. Originally titled Quod Erat Demonstrandum, written in 1905, published here for the first time with a new title, with the consent of Alice B. Toklas, from the original manuscript owned by Carl Van Vechten.
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.