Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Sewn Wrappers. About fine. Of 100 copies (26 lettered and 74 numbered), this copy is designated "hors commerce" (not for sale).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Why There are Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet. Aloe Editions, 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 8 pages (including blanks). Original dark green printed wrappers, sewn. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection. A fine copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. Why There are Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet. Aloe Editions, 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 8 pages (including blanks). Original dark blue printed wrappers, sewn. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection. A fine copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Why Are There Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet. Aloe Editions, 1973.
Price: US$74.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 26 lettered copies in limited edition. This is copy "E". String bound booklet. Very faint age or sun discoloration at edges of wraps. Else, near fine. (G2)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Sewn wrappers. Slight toning at the spine, else fine. One of 74 numbered copies (of a total edition of 100).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. WHY THERE ARE WHITES TO CONSOLE, A PORTRAIT OF JANET. Aloe Editions, N.P., 1973.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. (4) pages. Limited to 100 copies (Wilson A74). This copy not numbered or lettered. Printed from the original manuscript. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: In blue/gray printed wrappers, string tied; 8vo. 4 unnumbered leaves. Number 42 of 76 numbered and 24 lettered copies. "Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies"--Colophon. Lovely copy, virtually as new (in removable protective mylar covers). WorldCat lists 45 copies in isntitutions; somewaht scarce in the marketplace.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Condition: Fine. Aloe Editions 1973. Octavo. 4 pages. Original gray printed wrappers, stiched at the spine as published. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This is copy #9. Also includes Gertrude Stein's Last Will & Testament of which 150 copies were printed for her friends in February 1974, the centennial of her birth. 2 items. Authors; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Sewn Wrappers. Toning near the spine else near fine. Number 62 of 74 numbered copies and 26 lettered.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Wrappers. Near fine light toning and small spot. The total edition was 100 copies. One of approximately 74 numbered copies; this is #71.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.69 + shipping
Description: One of 74 numbered copies Fine copy Wilson & Uphill A74
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
STEIN, Gertrude.. Why are There Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet.. Aloe Editions, N.p., 1973.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers. First edition; No. 41 of 74 numbered copies. There were also 26 lettered copies. Slightly sunned at spine, else a fresh, near fine copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Chapbook in fine condition in sewn printed wrappers. Contains a single page of text by Stein. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This is copy: "hors commerce". INSCRIBED by the publisher to beat photographer Marshall Clements and dated in 1973.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Slim tall octavo. [4]pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Copy V of 26 lettered copies (of 100 copies printed).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Slim tall octavo. [4]pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. Copy M of 26 lettered copies (of 100 copies printed).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [4] pp. Original gray printed wrappers, stitched at spine. A little fading near spine. Otherwise fine. First edition. One of 74 numbered copies out of a total edition of 100 copies.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Number 59 of 74 numbered copies of a total edition of 100. 1 vols. 8vo. Wilson A-74 Blue gray wrappers. Fine. In quarter red morocco slipcase and chemise First edition, Number 59 of 74 numbered copies of a total edition of 100.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.