SISTER BROTHER, Gertrude and Leo Stein,
by Brenda Wineapple
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD uncl
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Bloomsbury Publishing, London - first UK edition 1996 hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Over fifty b&w photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Using previously unpublished material, the author presents a little-known angle on Gertrude Stein's life and provides the first full portrait of her brother Leo, and the consuming passion between brother and sister. A complementary and devoted couple, eccentric and compelling, they were constantly together from childhood to adulthood. Later Leo denounced his sister's work, and the Parisian painters he once supported. Packed book weighs 1¼kgs.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 33785
- Title
- SISTER BROTHER, Gertrude and Leo Stein,
- Author
- Brenda Wineapple
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6¼" x 9½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD uncl
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing, London - first UK edition
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 514 pages
- Keywords
- Henri Matisse Pablo Picasso Alfred Hodder May Bookstaver Biograph NOAMZCOM Gertrude Leo Stein Mabel Weeks Alice B Toklas
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