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THREE LIVES.
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good in light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (sunning to the spine, several small chips/light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good
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About This Item
New York:: New Directions,, (c. 1933.). Hardcover -. Very good in light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (sunning to the spine, several small chips and other edgewear.). Early printing. Gertrude Stein's first - and perhaps best - book originally published in a small edition in 1909. Includes two short stories ('The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena') and a novella ('Melanctha') which focus on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the century America. 'Melanctha,' the story of a young black woman, is a true masterpiece and unusual for its time in its uncondescending depiction of her as a woman and a human being. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Number Three in the New Classic Series. xi, 279 pp. Small format. Cover design by Alan Lustig, original price of $1.50 on dj flap.
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88137
- Title
- THREE LIVES.
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (sunning to the spine, several small chips
- Jacket Condition
- light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine in a good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Directions,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (c. 1933.)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Authors;
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