FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS: An Opera to Be Sung. by Stein, Gertrude - 1934.

Random House, 1/1/34. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 8x5x0. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, no jacket. Text unmarked. Binding firm. A couple of newspaper clippings glued inside, plus an owner's bookplate. Exterior worn, soiled. Portions of board showing through at corners and spine. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!

New York: Random House, 1934. Stated First printing. Hardcover. Very good +. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Sm 8vo. Black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. 57 pages. [Wilson A 21.a] Offsetting to rear free end paper and rear paste down where a newspaper clipping was laid in. Book store sticker (Beacon Book Shop [,] Norfolk in Virginia) on rear paste down.. Lacking the dust-jacket.

New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Black cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Neat owner bookplate on front pastedown with a three verse poem stamped on rear fly, cracked gutter with modestly soiled boards, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($1.00), generally toned and soiled, chipped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and bound with some reading wear, clean otherwise. Stein's libretto for Virgil Thomson's opera.

Random House. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Jacket - Good -. DJ is unclipped and 3/4 gone on spine Hardcover

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 57 pages; VG-/G; spine is brown with black and red lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut "$1.00", has heavy wear, with several large open and closed tears, has chunks missing from the top and bottom of the spine, has chipping along the top edge; binding has minor shelf wear, with bumping and fraying at the top and bottom of the spine and on the fore edge corners; pages have minor age toning, have minimal detachment in several locations; shelved HC Fiction. 1330008. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. B0012HDD4A . Introduction by Varl Van Vechten. Stated first printing. Very good in a very good (age darkened, minor edge wear) dust jacket.; 57 pages .

NY, RANDOM HOUSE, 1934, 1934. ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH FIRST EDITION GOOD. F. Hardcover.

Random House, 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. Random House; New York, 1934. Hardcover. First Printing. A Very Good, black cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some age spotting/foxing to boards and spine, sunning along board and spine edges, some age toning to pages, bit of discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, some scattered foxing to text block edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, sunning to panels/flaps/spine and verso, bit of edge/corner wear, chip to mid spine, small crease bottom panel corners, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 57pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 57pp. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned and spine rather darkened, with small chip at spine head/tail. Handsome first edition of this work for which Virgil Thomson composed the score -- considered groundbreaking in every respect including its all-black cast. Front jacket panel struggles to describe Stein's writing, finally settling politely for "strange and baffling prose cadences [that] provide a challenge to reader and publisher alike...." Front flyleaf bears contemporary (dated 29 September 1934) nonauthorial gift inscription that quotes the opera's opening line ("To know to know to love her so") and another line from the first page ("A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover"). A superb, bright copy in far better than average jacket.