First trade edition of Stein's ten prose portraits, one of 400 numbered copies issued without lithographs.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $250.00
"A paragraph can do what a sentence can do."
Stein's artist subjects include Guillaume Apollinaire, Christian Bérard, Eugene Berman, Bernard Faÿ, Georges Hugnet, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kristians Tonny, and Virgil Thomson, who would adapt Stein's methods to another medium and produce dozens of his own musical portraits over the coming decades. A well-preserved copy with both the original glassine and paper dust jacket.
Read more: Wilson, Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography, A15d; Thomson, "A Portrait of Gertrude Stein," The New York Review of Books.
Paris: Editions de la Montagne, (1930). 9'' x 6.5''. Original cream wrappers. In original cream dust jacket and original glassine. Text in English and French. 85, [7] pages. Light edgewear. Small stain to jacket front panel corner. Toning and several tears/chips to glassine. Most leaves unopened.
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