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STEIN, GERTRUDE. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Co., Boston, 1922.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Quarter navy cloth over grey boards. Paper label on spine in dust jacket with edgewear and two small chips to bottom edge. Inscribed by Stein "Paul Miner (?) Gertrude Stein, Dec (?) 34" with red X through the inscription. This is the second state of the binding. Size: Octavo
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company Publishers, Boston, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this work by the author of The Autobiography of Alice Toklas. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Joanna Graham from Gertrude Stein." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Geography and Plays is a collection of Gertrude Steinâs writing from about 1908 to 1920. âHere is one artist who has been able to accept ridicule, who has even foregone the privilege of writing the Great American Novel, uplifting our English-speaking stage and wearing the bays of the great poets, to go live among the little housekeeping words, the swaggering bullying street-corner words, and all the other forgotten and neglected citizens of the sacred and half-forgotten city" (Sherwood Anderson).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 419pp. Blue cloth spine, gray boards, titles in label on spine and printed in dark blue on front board. Spine label chipped at edges but titles intact. Binding solid, spine straight. Wear to corners, particularly upper back corner, which is visibly cracked and tender, with a small piece missing. Lower back corner missing small piece as well. Pages age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Signed on half-title by Stein in black ink and inscribed, "For the [illegible]." Dust jacket is intact, with price on spine and both flaps present. Thin missing section along front edge of jacket crease where panel and front flap meet. Tape repair along upper left edge of front panel. Back of jacket shows crease from top to bottom. Jacket presented in mylar. Uncommon Stein edition, particularly signed. From the library of the late theatre critic, Michael Feingold.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. Four Seas, Boston, 1922.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 419pp. Blue cloth spine, paper label. Purple and gray abstract pattern on the panels. The bottom corner of the front panel has been reinforced, there is fraying along the edges of the panels.Tape remnants are along the inner hinges. Internally clean and unmarked. a generous collection of poems, stories and playsall dating from 19101920. Wide range of the author's styles reveal Stein as philosopher, poet, portraitist, dramatist and short story writer, as the investigator of the nature of language, and much more. Superb sampling of works drew attention to the artistic avant-garde movements of the early 20th century and introduced new directions in experimental writing". This volume is from the estate of Michael Feingold, renowned theatre critic.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to playwright George Middleton: "To George Middleton / with pleasant memories / Gertrude Stein." Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown. New Jersey-born playwright, director, and producer George Middleton served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1927 to 1929. He is perhaps best remembered today for his instrumental role in creating the Minimum Basic Agreement, a collective bargaining agreement that covers benefits, rights, and protections for Writers Guild of America members. Middleton was also known for his collaborations with Guy Bolton, including the successful 1917 stage comedy "Polly With a Past," basis for the 1920 film adaptation. A collection of stories and plays by Stein, including "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene," originally published in "Vanity Fair" magazine in 1922 and now credited as one of the first stories to use the word gay to mean homosexual. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book moderately rubbed at the corners, with a lightly toned spine. Jacket spine lightly toned, with chips at the corners.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude.. Geography and Plays.. The Four Seas Company, Boston, Mass., 1922.
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: First edition. Second state binding: cloth-backed boards with label on spine. Octavo. 419 pages. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To Gerald and hand in hand we enjoy it all together altogether - with so much affection - Gertrude''. The recipient is Lord Berners (1883-1950) the British aesthete, composer, writer and wit, whose home Faringdon House was frequented by a wide range of artistic luminaries, including Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Igor Stravinsky, Oliver Messel, Cecil Beaton, the Mitfords, H.G. Wells, Tom Driberg, the Sitwells, Constant Lambert, William Walton and many others. Stein and Berners collaborated on the 1937 ballet, A Wedding Bouquet, based on a text by the former and set to music by the latter; the choreography was by Frederick Ashton. A later collaboration, on an opera based on Stein's libretto Dr Faustus Lights the Lights, was abandoned as Berners sank into a period of depression. This has not prevented the libretto in recent years from being set to music and performed by various American experimental theatre groups.Bottom corners of covers a but bumped and rubbed. Very good in torn, rubbed and defective dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom