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New York: Something Else Press. Complete Version. Wight cloth cover. Cover has stains. Gift inscription on free end paper. Some stain on the half title page. Clean text. D14 . Good. Hardcover. 1966.
The Making of Americans. Being a history of a family's progress by STEIN, Gertrude - (1968).
by STEIN, Gertrude
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The Making of Americans. Being a history of a family's progress
by STEIN, Gertrude
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London: Peter Owen, (1968).. First UK edition, 8vo, (ii), 925, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight browning and sunning to spine.
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The Making of Americans, Being a History of a Family's Progress
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The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family's Progress
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Paris: Contact Editions / Three Mountains Press, 1925 First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Maurice Darantière in Dijon, of which 100 sets were sent to the US to be bound as the first American edition. Inscribed by Stein to front flyleaf: "For Miss Ethel Friedman / Gtde Stein". Bound in three-quarter maroon morocco and red boards, gilt spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with the original tan wrappers bound in, half-title and colophon also present. Very good, with rubbing to leather at spine hinges and a few scratches to the spine, interior wrappers with toning and damp staining, some staining to endpapers and fore edge. Overall, an attractively rebound copy of the scarce first edition published in Paris, which is also inscribed by Stein. Gertrude Steins second novel The Making of Americans is an experimental work employing the modernist style. Stein traces the genealogy and history of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families, but by her own…
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