First edition of Stein's prose piece on her brothers in "brutal egotism," preceded by "A Long Gay Book" and "Many Many Women."
Very good plus.
Price: $350.00
"When they are very little just only a baby you can never tell which one is to be a lady."
"He said he must have it, he said that the way to say it again was not the only way, he said he would not do that, he said that he had all the rest," Stein writes of Picasso, or perhaps of Matisse. Then again, speaking of Matisse, if not of Picasso, "This was not what he said when he said what he said and he said what he said. He was not the only one and yet that was enough, that he was the one. There were some who said the same. He was not one." How true that is.
Read more: Wilson, Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography, A19a; Katz, "Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein."
Paris: Plain Edition, (1933). 7.25'' x 5.25''. Original stiff tan printed wrappers. In original printed slipcase. Edition of 500 copies. 278 pages. "Made in France" stamped in red on rear paste-down below colophon. Light edgewear and soil, spine heavily toned. Moderate soil and toning to slipcase. Firm.
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