THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: Being a History of a Family's Progress
(1925)
First edition, in the rare original wrappers, of Stein's magnum opus, an influential Modernist epic.
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![Item #52059 BREWSIE ET WILLIE [Brewsie and Willie]. Gertrude Stein, Raymond Schwab](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52059_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765228636)
BREWSIE ET WILLIE [Brewsie and Willie]
(1947)
First French trade edition of Stein's postwar novella-in-dialogue between a pair of befuddled American GIs, translated and introduced by poet and scholar Raymond Schwab.
LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
1969
First softcover (simultaneous with hardcover) US edition of one of Stein's most under-appreciated books.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
(1928)
First edition of Stein's collection of experimental portraits and linguistic investigations — in the uncommon original jacket.
LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
1930
First edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein — and which Toklas repudiated.
OPERAS AND PLAYS
[1932]
Association first edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein in 1957 — and which Toklas repudiated.
GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS
(1922)
First edition, in first state binding, of this collection of plays and portraits of people & places by Stein — with an admiring introduction by Sherwood Anderson.
MORCEAUX CHOISIS DE LA FABRICATION DES AMERICAINS
(1929)
Limited first French edition of these excerpts from Stein's expatriate classic MAKING OF AMERICANS — translated by Surrealist George Hugnet alongside Stein, and prefaced by his note disavowing knowledge of the English language.
HAVE THEY ATTACKED MARY. HE GIGGLED. (A Political Caricature)
1917
First separate and first complete edition of Stein's poem, partially a portrait of art critic Henry McBride, originally printed in Vanity Fair with 35 lines omitted — one of just 200 copies.
DIX PORTRAITS
(1930)
First trade edition of Stein's ten prose portraits, one of 400 numbered copies issued without lithographs.
THREE LIVES
1927
Third UK printing of Stein's masterpiece of modernism and first published book — stories of three working-class Baltimorean women.
HOW TO WRITE
[1931]
First edition of one of Stein's best and most important works.
MEXICO: A Play
1999
A play by Stein, first published in the 1922 collection GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS. A charming little edition.
MOTOR AUTOMATISM
1969
Reproduces two articles resulting from Gertrude Stein's medical studies at Johns Hopkins.
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