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Ultramarine Pub Co, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Internally clean. Binding secure. Covers well handled with thumbing to fore-edges.

New York: Something Else Press. Complete Version. Wight cloth cover. Cover has stains. Gift inscription on free end paper. Some stain on the half title page. Clean text. D14 . Good. Hardcover. 1966.

London: Peter Owen, 1968. written by Gertrude Stein 1906-1908. Pp. [ii]+926(last blank); demy 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly foxed and soiled, the edges slightly rubbed and split, with a small triangular piece torn from top edge of front panel and reattached with tape on reverse; upper free endpaper slightly soiled, both free endpapers slightly foxed; Peter Owen, London, 1968. First U.K. edition. Wilson A6h. *Gertrude Stein's second novel, written between 1905 and 1908, but not published until 1925, in a limited edition in Paris.

New York: Something Else Press, 1973. First Complete paperback edition. 3000 copies published April 1, 1973. 925 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. First Complete paperback edition. 3000 copies published April 1, 1973. 925 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Wilson A6g

Dalkey Archive Pr, 1995. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 925 pages. 8.00x6.00x1.50 inches.

Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo, 925 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Rebound in olive cloth covers with no text. Inch-long tear along the hinge at the front head of the spine, a half-inch tear along the hinge at the rear head of the spine, fraying at the tail of the spine, boards have significant discoloration and shelf wear to all edges and corners, and warping to the fore-edge of the front cover. Shelf wear to the bottom edge of text block, age-toning throughout. Text block has sporadic penciled notes from a previous owner in margins and on front free end papers, and several pages are loose, but all remain intact. Loose extract of Edith Sitwell's review of The Making of Americans from the April 1926 issue of "The Criterion" journal laid in. Original brown wrapping bound-in. One of 500 copies printed by Maurice Darantiere for McAlmon's Contact Press in 1925. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Written between 1903 and 1911, Stein's… Read More

Paris: Contact Editions / Three Mountains Press, 1925 First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Maurice Darantière in Dijon, of which 100 sets were sent to the US to be bound as the first American edition. Inscribed by Stein to front flyleaf: "For Miss Ethel Friedman / Gtde Stein". Bound in three-quarter maroon morocco and red boards, gilt spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with the original tan wrappers bound in, half-title and colophon also present. Very good, with rubbing to leather at spine hinges and a few scratches to the spine, interior wrappers with toning and damp staining, some staining to endpapers and fore edge. Overall, an attractively rebound copy of the scarce first edition published in Paris, which is also inscribed by Stein. Gertrude Stein’s second novel The Making of Americans is an experimental work employing the modernist style. Stein traces the genealogy and history of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families, but by her own… Read More