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Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. [Foreword by Donald Gallup]

Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. [Foreword by Donald Gallup]

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Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. [Foreword by Donald Gallup]

by Stein, Gertrude

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[Pawlet, Vermont]: The Banyan Press, 1948. First edition, no. 393 of 600 copies. 79 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth-backed boards, fore edge uncut. Near Fine in original card slipcase with some superficial wear and spine fading). First edition, no. 393 of 600 copies. 79 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gertrude Stein's Detective Story. Wilson A47a

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"Two additional texts, Is dead and A waterfall and a piano, are appended to this edition"--Bibliographical note.

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Title
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. [Foreword by Donald Gallup]
Author
Stein, Gertrude
Format/Binding
79 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Red cloth-backed boards, fore edge uncut. Near Fine in original card slipcase with some superficial wear and spine fading)
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition, no. 393 of 600 copies
Publisher
The Banyan Press
Place of Publication
[Pawlet, Vermont]
Date Published
1948
Keywords
American | Women | Detective Fiction | Gertrude Stein
Bookseller catalogs
Literature; Social Thought;

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