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Traduction de la Baronne J. Seillière et Bernard Faÿ. Préface de Bernard Faÿ. Paris, Libr. Stock (Cabinet Cosmopolite), 1933, 8vo, pp. 260 (4); broché. - Edition orig. de la traduction française, limitée à 2250 exemplaires numérotés sur alfa satiné [aussi 200 ex. SP sur papier ordinaire]. - Quelques minimes imperfections à la couverture (faibles petites rousseurs en bas; le dos légèrement bruni), mais très bon état, exemplaire non lu, 'in collector's condition'. -------------

This edition (a major book from Stein), edited and shortened by Stein's close friend Bernard Faÿ (1893-1978), who also contributes the preface. Faÿ and Stein were lifelong friends. He was the primary translator of Stein's works into French, and despite his anti-Semitism, he protected her and Alice B. Toklas during the Nazi occupation of France; later Stein wrote a letter on Faÿs behalf when he was tried as a Nazi collaborator, and afterwards contributed financially to his escape from prison. - After this French edition appeared 1934 the same abridged version (English text, with the preface by Faÿ) in New York, by Harcourt, Brace and Co. - [Extra shipping cost asked for destinations out with Europe].