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An Elucidation by Gertrude Stein. Offprint from: transition, no. 1. [Paris:] transition, April 1927. 8° (195 x 144mm).
First edition, in original buff-coloured stapled yapped wrappers. 16pp. Minor crimping to top fore-edge yapped wrappers. Pages uncut. Usual age-toning. A Very Good copy of this fragile, ephemeral publication.
This scarce offprint was issued to correct the mis-printings to the text of the article that had just appeared in the first issue of the magazine "transition." (Wilson A10). Stein insisted on the printing of this supplementary pamphlet, but only enough copies to supply subscribers were printed; these were laid-in to copies of the first printing of the magazine issue. The pamphlet begins with an apology by Elliot Paul, the co-editor of "transition", stating: "Since, unfortunately, the version of Miss Gertrude Stein's 'An elucidation' printed in the April number of Transition, while containing the correct words, presented them in the wrong order (through an inadvertence in the… Read More

EXILES: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS, James Joyce. (London: Egoist Press, 1921). The second English edition of Exiles, published The Egoist Press from newly set type (first edition, thus), incorporating corrections from the Grant Richards and BW Huebsch first editions. One of only 500 bound copies in an issue of 1,000 sheets (with the remaining sets of sheets handed over to Jonathan Cape in 1924). Bound in dark green cloth over boards, blind-stamped on cover and gilt stamped on spine. A Very Good+ copy of a rare edition. No dust jacket. Spine slightly tanned and gilt rubbed; slight fraying to crown.
Joyce's only work for theatre, written between the spring 1914 and autumn 1915, was first published in 1918 in simultaneous editions by Grant Richards (London) and BW Huebsch (New York). In the interim, Joyce, with help of Ezra Pound, sought but failed to arrange a performance of the play. Its first production was in German translation (Verbannte) in Munich in 1919; its first performance in English was at The… Read More