Search Results: A Stein Is A Stein Is A Stein from TBCL The Book Collection Library

London: Michael Joseph, (1970), 1970. 1st Edition, Thus. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition, Thus. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. A fine copy in the original smoky brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 350 pp. McAlmon's now classic modernist memoir of expatriate Paris. Remininiscences of the seminal Contact Press & Paris Literary Life of the 1920's, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald et al. Cyril Connolly wrote: "It is not just the famous books which are hard to find. Several million books of 1938, 1939 and 1940 perished in the Blitz, hence the rarity of Beckett's "Murphy", MacNeice's "Yeats" and McAlmon's "Being Geniuses Together".

New York: Random house, (1946), 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A near fine copy (neat name on ffe) in dustwrapper designed by T. McKnight Kauffer, showing light use. A follow-up to, 'Wars I Have Seen', this book about the American GI preparing with anxiety for his return to civilian life as revealed by Stein from her intimate, numerous & uninhibited conversations (as mother confessor, friend & confident) with the many soldiers who visited her Paris apartment in Paris. Wilson A 39a.

Paris: Editions De La Montagne, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. English/French Text. First Edition. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's stiff card wrappers, printed in black, original glassine present. Royal 8vo. 85 pp. # 297 of 400 copies on Alfa [of 502 total copies]. Issued without illustrations. Wilson A15d. A superb example.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition by Gertrude Stein with an introduction by Thornton Wilder. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's sand coloured boards stamped on the cover and spine in brown, housed in the rare near fine original dust jacket printed red and blue with a slight tear on the back, hardly noticeable. Light edgewear. Beautifully designed dust jacket with the price of $3.75 intact. Housed in a protective acitate. 3000 copies were published. 8vo., 221 pp. Stein wrote the manuscript of these four essays on George Washington, Henry James, Wilbur Wright, and Ulysses S. Grant before her death in 1946.

New York: Random House, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 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… Read More

Dijon: Darantiere Press, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Presentation Copy. One of 1000 copies printed for Stein & Alice B. Toklas by Darantiere Press. First Edition. Very good or better, without dustwrapper as issued. Inscribed but not signed by Stein in a later hand, to John James, an American journalist living in France: "To John James / in Paris / May 46 / Happy Days". Wilson A17. Rarely Found Inscribed. Stiff Mylar custom fitted clear protective wrapper. An extremely good copy.

Paris: Editions de La Montagne, [1929], 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 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.

New York: Random House, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Signed by the author. A fine copy in the publisher's stiff card wrappers, printed in black and red. 8vo. 247 pp. A stunning essay collection ranging from Henry James, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Gertrude Stein, William Styron, Anne Frank et al.

New York: Walter V. McKee, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. A fine copy, in a near fine UNCLIPPED bright dust jacket showing minimal use. Very attractive cover art. An extremely important anthology with works by Joyce, Stein, Kafka, Schwitters and other strong contributors. A very handsome copy.

London: Batsford, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. "A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war". First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dustwrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller's sticker at the top of the inside flap]. Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: "To John James who says Ma''am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46". Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy. An extremely good example. In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945),… Read More