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The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three Plays
by Gertrude Stein
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin -The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1948. VG/VG. "Printed by Hely's Limited Dublin Ireland" on the copyright page. Decorated/illustrated by Francis Rose. The book is tight with solid hinges and grey cloth with pink decorations. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages are slightly age-toned. Patterned endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) with a few chips and light shelf wear (see photos). Protected in a Mylar cover. 83 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Published after her death in 1946.
This is a short book, but It's true Stein writing joyfully. Twenty lessons, followed by three short plays, The First Reader is a childishly playful book where Stein takes the reader back to early experiences with written words — when their size, shape, and sound were as consequential as the information they conveyed. The three, short, one-act plays consist of "In a Garden," "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters," and "Look and Long."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4475
- Title
- The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three Plays
- Author
- Gertrude Stein
- Illustrator
- Francis Rose
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unknown
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin - The Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Pages
- 83
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.5
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- plays, words, silly, limited, gertrude stein
Terms of Sale
Armadillo Alley Books
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- Shelf Wear
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Copyright page
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