Portraits and Prayers
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Second Printing. Very Good in a Fair jacket, ($2.50), split in two at the rear edge of the spine, generally toned, chips and tears throughout. Tan buckram, frayed at the bottom edge, with a paste-down label on the spine. Square, front hinge a bit loose, some mustiness. Stein's "album of intimate characterizations of her friends," including Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, T.S. Eliot, Cocteau, Hemingway, Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, among others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5961
- Title
- Portraits and Prayers
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Modern Literature, Biography, Memoir, Literary Memoir, Roaring Twenties, Expats, Lost Generation
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...