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[Literature] Stein, Gertrude Group of 7 First Editions
[Literature] Stein, Gertrude Group of 7 First Editions
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[Literature] Stein, Gertrude Group of 7 First Editions

1. Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena
New York: John Lane Company/London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1915. First English edition (one of 300 copies). From the library of American poet Alice Corbin Henderson (1881-1949), with her signature ("Alice Corbin") on front free endpaper. Original full blue cloth, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; embossed stamp "Pennasanta Wood/Lake Bluff, Illinois." on front free endpaper. Wilson A1b

A lovely copy of the author's first book, one of only 300 copies, made up from the American sheets and with a cancel title-page.

2. Have They Attacked Mary. He Giggled (A Political Caricature)
(New York: Vanity Fair Company, 1917). First and limited edition, #129/200 numbered copies. Square 8vo. 14 pp. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Henry McBride by Jules Pascin. Original stiff printed red wrappers, top front left corner chipped, scattered minor soiling. Wilson A4

3. Geography and Plays
Boston: The Four Seas Company, (1922). First edition (one of 2,500 copies). 8vo. 419 pp. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson. Original first state quarter blue cloth over grey paper-covered boards, stamped in blue, original paper spine label; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in original dust-jacket; book-plate on front paste-down. Wilson A5a

4. Lucy Church Amiably
Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1930. First edition. 8vo. 240 pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in black, extremities lightly worn; all edges trimmed; in original plain brown dust-jacket, worn, panels separated; book-plate of American poet Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) on front free endpaper. Wilson A14a

5. How to Write
Paris: Plain Edition, (1931). First edition (one of 1,000 copies). 12mo. 395 pp. Original quarter grey paper over light grey paper-covered boards, paper spine label; all edges trimmed. Wilson A17a

6. Operas and Plays
Paris: Plain Edition, (1932). First edition (one of 500 copies). 8vo. 400 pp. Original stiff printed tan wrappers, stamped in black; all edges trimmed; in original matching tan slip case. Wilson A18

7. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with two shorter stories
Paris: Plain Edition, (1933). First edition (one of 500 copies). 8vo. 278 pp. Original stiff printed tan wrappers, stamped in black, scattered light soiling; all edges trimmed; glassine wanting; in original matching tan slip case. Wilson A19a



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From the private collection of Asher D. Atchick, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

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[Literature] Stein, Gertrude Group of 7 First Editions

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