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Price: US$1636.13 + shipping
Description: Paris, Edition da la Montage, 1929. 25,7 x 16,8 cm. 121(1) Seiten, 5 Bl. Erste französische Ausgabe. Mit einem farbigen Druck von Bérard. Von Autor und Künstler im Druckvermerk signiert. Gesamtauflage 300 Ex. Das Buch ist eines der ersten Sprachexperimente von G. Stein. Erste Seiten geringfügig stockfleckig. Die zwei letzten Blätter am Rande leicht vergilbt, sonst sehr schönes Exemplar. With printing by Bérard. Signed in colophone by Stein and Bérard. Near fine copy. Sprache: Französisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Stein by Christian Bérard. Translation and preface by George Hugnet. Text in French. Wrappers with both printed dust jacket and unprinted glassine dust jacket; topedge uncut. Exterior somewhat tanned and trifle edgeworn, first leaf and textblock edges with a couple of foxed spots, near fine. One of 85 numbered copies "sur Verge Bouffant," with the portrait frontispiece by Christian Bérard and Signed by both Stein and Bérard on the limitation page (of a total edition of 302). Wilson D5c.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 121 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in printed beige wrappers. Original glassine in Near Fine condition, with only the smallest tear near head of spine. Portrait frontispiece present, top edge largely unopened, and text block interior clean. Number 76 of 85 copies on Vergé bouffant with a portrait of the author by Christian Bérard, signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 302 copies. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. The first French edition of selections from Stein's modernist novel, The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress. Stein's novel has a notoriously difficult publication history: a portion of the work was printed in Ford Maddox Ford's transatlantic review in 1924, before being released in its entirety by McAlmon's Contact Press in 1925 (in a limited edition of 500 copies). After its 1925 publication, there was no other full and complete english language edition released until 1966. The present edition represents the first publication of Stein's work in a language other than English, and was also one of the first works published by Éditions de la Montagne (founded by Hugnet in the same year). References: Wilson D5d. 1346069. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2675.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Very Uncommon & important Stein. Numbered & Signed by Stein & Berard.1 of 85 Copies [0f 302 total edition] On Verge Bouffant PaperTraduction et Preface de Georges Hugnet. Portrait de l'auteur par Christian Berard. Tall octavo, 125pp., Decorated cream-coloured stiff wrappers with original glassine & custom fitted stiff Mylar protective outer wrapper. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Gertrude Stein by Christian Berard. A superb fine, lovely copy [tiny tear neatly closed]. Contents fresh & clean, partially unopened. First French Edition of selections from Stein's Masterpiece: The Making of Americans. Signed by Gertrude Stein & by Christian Berard. Of the entire edition, only the first 100 copies [all papers] contain the frontispiece portrait of Gertrude Stein by Berard]. Wilson D5c.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada