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Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed. [Thompson, Virgil] Stein, Gertrude. FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS: An Opera to be Sung [by American composer Virgil Thomson]. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Signed. New York: Random House, 1934. 8vo., 57pp., gilt lettered black cloth. Hardcover. First Edition. Wilson A21a. Stated "First Printing, February 1934". An essentially fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. A one page Virgil Thompson ALS, dated 29 April, 1968 on his letterhead tipped to the front pastedown. "Dear Nick / I never did find among my things a treble piece for you to publish though there may still be something there if I look hard when I go back to New York, May 15. I've been in residence here opening at Trinity College, and liking it. May 20th, I am going to Elizabeth, New Jersey to hear 4 Saint produced [believe it or not] by a 6th grade class. If it's not too late for your treble book, send me a postcard. I should love to be in it. / Best and ever warmly / Virgil Thompson. In fine condition.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 57pp., black cloth; dj chipped, archivally repaired chips; inked name of Nancy Doss on front pastedown, some toning to endpapers from dust jacket. [Wilson A21a]. Full-page inscription by Gertrude Stein to O. J. Kedlec, a collector from Forest Park, Illinois. Stein's inscription repeats the title of this work, and she wrote it from Bilignin, par Belley, Ain, France."
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Four Saints In Three Acts. Random House, New York, 1934.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A clean, bright and attractive copy of this first edition. Bound in original black cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. This is the libretto for Stein's opera which had music composed by Virgil Thompson. The premiere was held in Hartford, Connecticut in 1934. The jacket is very clean and bright with no chips though it is price-clipped. This copy is signed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper. There is a very faint offset stain that does transit the last few letters of Stein's name. I could say there is a "Stein Stain" but that would be in poor taste. This remains a very attractive copy of an important work by Gertrude Stein, signed by her and in excellent condition. Near Fine / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, An Opera To Be Sung. Random House: NY, 1934.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.5 x 6", black cloth, 57pp, covers rubbed and a bit dusty, top edge of back cover with some paper adhesion, endpapers unevenly toned; still a good copy of the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED "For Veronica Hutchinson." AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, GERTRUDE STEIN. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GERTRUDE STEIN on the front free end page. Hard bound in dust jacket. First edition, with first printing stated on the copyright page. Wear to jacket that shows chipping to edges. Interior clean and binding sound. RARE!
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. 57, [1] pp. 8vo. Signed by Gertrude Stein. Signed by Stein on the front free endpaper. The libretto for an opera, the music of which was written by Virgil Thomson. Wilson A21 Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gold on spine, dust-jacket printed in black and red. A few chips and tears to jacket, spine of jacket rubbed, still an attractive example
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.