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Three Lives (Modern Library #211.1)
by STEIN, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Fair with no dust jacket. [c.1933-39]. Flexible cloth. A Modern Library reprint edition of Gertrude Stein's work of fiction, consisting of three stories: "The Good Anna," "Melanctha," and "The Gentle Lena." The principal characters in each are not connected to one another, but share a venue based on the city of Baltimore. With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. --- In Toledano spine 7 / blue balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with interconnected "ML" device / dark topstain / orange Kent endpapers / volume lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1933-39 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #211.1. --- A Fair-only copy, with a large hole at spine which has resulted in the loss of most of the lettering, also with sunned spine & back cover, chafing to cloth and age-toning to leaves, else an intact, unmarked copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xi, (7), 11-279 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87367
- Title
- Three Lives (Modern Library #211.1)
- Author
- STEIN, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Flexible cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1933-39]
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Device
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- A.N.
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