Buy this book on-line GERTRUDE STEIN : Three Lives. Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle LenaJohn Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1915
The first English edition of the author's first book, one of 300 copies (from an initial print run of 1,000 which made up the 1909 first edition) printed and bound in the US and offered to the UK market with a cancel title page but retaining the US publisher's imprint at the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 279pp. Blue vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Cloth rubbed at the spine ends, with a little loss, and with just a touch of further chafing to the corner tips. Masonic bookplate (Library of the Masonic Homes Elizabethtown, PA.) to the front pastedown alongside a similar inkstamp and with a second stamp to the base of a single text leaf. A lengthy but superficial crease to the half-title, and with a short tear to the head of one text leaf, and one more to the base of another. A very good copy of an uncommon book. No dust wrapper called for. Wilson A1b.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of GERTRUDE STEIN : Three Lives. Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, livres d'occasion, livres illustrées, atlases and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |