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Three Lives
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Reprint of the 1909 edition in New Directions' New Classics Series. Published Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, no date. 12mo., 5" x 7 1/8", xi+279pp., introduction by Carl van Vechten. Burgundy cloth with black spine titles. spine gently sunned, light soil to edges og page block, nmae on pastedown, otherwise very good, pages clean and bright. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
Synopsis
Three Lives (1909) was Gertrude Stein's first published work. The book is separated into three stories, "The Good Anna," "Melanctha," and "The Gentle Lena. " The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in the fictional town of Bridgepoint.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008748
- Title
- Three Lives
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Connecticut
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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