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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 Stein’s 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… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1934. A heroic achievement of writing, a near-impossible feat of reading First edition thus, first printing, signed by the author on the half-title. This work was first published in book form in Paris in 1925 and in the US in 1926. The present edition is edited and shortened by Stein's close friend Bernard Faÿ (1893-1978), who contributes the preface. Excerpts of the novel first appeared in 1924 in the Transatlantic Review, after Ernest Hemingway convinced the editor, Ford Madox Ford, to accept Stein's work. The following year, the entire novel was published by Contact Press in Paris, in a limited edition of 500 copies, of which 100 were exported for an American edition published by Albert and Charles Boni in 1926. It wasn't until 1966 that the full novel appeared again, published by Something Else Press. Bernard Faÿ and Stein were lifelong friends; Faÿ has been reported as saying that the three most important people that he had met were Picasso, Gertrude… Read More

Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo, 925 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Rebound in olive cloth covers with no text. Inch-long tear along the hinge at the front head of the spine, a half-inch tear along the hinge at the rear head of the spine, fraying at the tail of the spine, boards have significant discoloration and shelf wear to all edges and corners, and warping to the fore-edge of the front cover. Shelf wear to the bottom edge of text block, age-toning throughout. Text block has sporadic penciled notes from a previous owner in margins and on front free end papers, and several pages are loose, but all remain intact. Loose extract of Edith Sitwell's review of The Making of Americans from the April 1926 issue of "The Criterion" journal laid in. Original brown wrapping bound-in. One of 500 copies printed by Maurice Darantiere for McAlmon's Contact Press in 1925. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Written between 1903 and 1911, Stein's… Read More

[Dijon:: Three Mountains Press,, 1925].. First edition sheets; possibly one of 100 copies issued for America, but without any indication of the same.. handsomely rebound in half brown morocco with gilt spine.. Front board neatly reattached, otherwise very attractive.. 4to,.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1934. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) probably "completed" this modernist novel in 1912, but it seems to have been under rather constant revision afterward. Excerpts were published several times; and a small edition (500 copies) was published by Contact Press in 1925. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition (stated first edition). It is, however, edited and shortened by Bernard Fay. Fuller, more complete editions have been recently published (1966 and 1995). Orange cloth bindingwith brown lettering. The text is clean and fresh; 416 pages. There is a hint of a bump to one corner and (perhaps) a fade to the topstain, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is complete, but is worn and chipped along the edges. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus.

London: Peter Owen, 1968. written by Gertrude Stein 1906-1908. Pp. [ii]+926(last blank); demy 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly foxed and soiled, the edges slightly rubbed and split, with a small triangular piece torn from top edge of front panel and reattached with tape on reverse; upper free endpaper slightly soiled, both free endpapers slightly foxed; Peter Owen, London, 1968. First U.K. edition. Wilson A6h. *Gertrude Stein's second novel, written between 1905 and 1908, but not published until 1925, in a limited edition in Paris.