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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. Geography and Plays is a 1922 compendium of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness works. These stream-of-consciousness tests, elegiac essays or "portraits", were aimed to arouse "the excitingness of pure being" and can be shown as literature's response to Cubism, plasticity, and assortment. Though the fiction has been defined as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is regarded as among the influential pieces of Gertrude. </br></br>Gertrude Stein was a United States author, poet, dramatist, and collector of art works. She was born in the Allegheny West locality of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew in Oakland, California, Gertrude emigrated to Paris in 1903, and kept France as her dwelling for most of her life. She introduced a Paris salon, where the key characters of modernism in fiction and art,… Read More

Robert B. Luce Inc., 1965. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 260 pages; Physical desc.: 260 p. Notes: Impressively photo illustrated. Subjects: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 --Correspondence. Steward, Samuel M. --Correspondence. Toklas, Alice B. --Correspondence.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 260 pages; Description: x, 260 p. , [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 --Correspondence. Steward, Samuel M. --Correspondence.

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New York : Dover Publications, 1994. Dover edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; iv, 167 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Working class women ; Fiction. Working class women. Women ; Fiction. English literature; 20th century. English literature.

Barcelona: Bruguera, 1984. Libro. Bien. Rústica comercial. Primera edición. 17 cm. Traducción de Mario Antolín-Rato. -- 2 vol. (575 ; 476 p.). -- Bruguera, Libro amigo, 1034-1035.

London : Penguin Books, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Penguin Modern Classics ; 2531. Physical description: 272 pages ; 20cm. Subjects: Toklas, Alice B. (Alice Babette) (1877-1967) -- Biography. Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

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Nambe, N. M. : Munklinde Vestergaard, 1994. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 213 pages; Abridged edition of 'The making of Americans'. Description: 213 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Family --United States --Fiction.

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Torino: EDT, , 1997. Brossura (wrappers). Perfetto (Mint). . 8vo. pp. 100. Perfetto (Mint). . Si aggiunge un secondo libro della stessa collana: Erik Orsenna e Bernard Matussière, Melodia cubana. EDT, 1999, pp. 98 + 51 tavole fotografiche. Perfetto

[Pittsburgh] University Of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 325 pages; Description: xvii, 325 p. 22 cm. Subjects: Operas - Plays - Gertrude Stein. Notes: ""The published works of Gertrude Stein, compiled by Donald Gallup"": p. 323-325.

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New York : Liveright, (1971). First edition. "The three writings issued in this volume - two for the first time and the longer Q.E.D. in a corrected edition - represent the first steps of Gertrude Stein's literary progress". "Fernhurst", begun in 1904, is a fictional account of a scandalous love triangle; the slightly earlier "Q.E.D." is a suppressed autobiographical novel concerning another love triangle, while the family saga of "The Making of Americans" appears in the form of an unpublished early draft. With a note on the texts by Donald Gallup and a lengthy introduction by Leon Katz. Demy 8vo (23cm). [8],xxxiv,214pp. Original black cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt and blind; a few specks on top edge, but otherwise a very good, bright, clean, and sound copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket with some mild rubbing, a couple of small scratches, and some very minor wear, but also very good. re

Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 1969. First collectors edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original color printed boards in slip case. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Retains impressed personal library stamp of William Jospeh Lynch. ; 62 pages; Physical desc. : vii, 62 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Narration (Rhetoric) --Addresses, essays, lectures.

London: John Rodker, 1927. [Modern literature] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 279; [5]. Publisher's blue paper over boards, black titles to upper and spine. Top edge blue, the rest untrimmed. Interior bright and clean, faintly marked here and there. Endpapers toned, light pencil inscription to flyleaf. Edges toned. Binding toned, especially spine. Light bumping to extremities, some tearing to headcap. Very good. Stein's first published and thus critically acclaimed literary work, released initially in 1909 by The Grafton Press. Details the lives of three different working-class women living in the fictional town of Bridgepoint.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1933). Hardcover first edition -. Good plus condition - some toning to the covers, but the print on the spine and the "A rose is a rose is a rose" circle on the front cover are quite legible, a bit of fraying to the top of the spine and toning to the pages. Hinges are intact, book is straight and tight. No dust jacket. . First edition. Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually by her friend and lover Gertrude Stein. It recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. Listed by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp.

New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. designed by McKnight Kauffer. Dust jacket has mild toning to the spine and white of rear panel with small wear at corners and tips. First Edition, First Printing. One of 600 copies. 8vo; 20.5 cm.; 8 inches tall; 114 pp.. Gertrude Stein, avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II. From the dust jacket: 'Now, with the war over, Gertrude Stein concerns herself with the plight of the American soldier preparing with anxiety his return to civilian life. Many revelations of what the GI's have been thinking were made to her when she became a kind of mother confessor to them. They flocked to her… Read More

London : B. T. Batsford, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good title-blocked cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Previous owner's signature. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall, plates are bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 120 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color frontispiece, illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. Subjects; Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946. Charpentier, Henry 1889-1952. Stein, Gertrude. History 1900-1940. National characteristics, French. Manners and customs. Paris (France). Paris (France) Social life and customs. Paris (France) Mœurs et coutumes. French history. Humour. Observation. Second World War (1939-1945).