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WARS I HAVE SEEN by GERTRUDE STEIN - 1945

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WARS I HAVE SEEN by GERTRUDE STEIN - 1945

WARS I HAVE SEEN

by GERTRUDE STEIN

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First edition of a Random House wartime book. Gertrude Stein remained in southeastern France during World War II though she was a potential target of persecution and had been advised to leave Nazi-occupied France. Here in a series of personal anecdotes, she recalls what she and the people of France endured between 1940 and 1944 during the German Occupation. Boards are clean. Binding is tight. Interior clean and bright. Dust jacket is not intact but included.

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  • Format/Binding Hardcover
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  • Edition First
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher RANDOM HOUSE
  • Place of Publication NEW YORK
  • Date Published 1945
  • Pages 259
  • Size 8.5 x 5.5
  • Keywords MEMOIR, FRANCE, NAZI OCCUPATION, LIBERATION OF PARIS
  • Size 8.5 x 5.5

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by Stein, Gertrude

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Random House, 1945. No dust jacket. Boards have very minor wear. Pages free of markings. Scotch taped in back to one of the last pages is a NY Times news article relating to Stein. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***. Hard Cover. Good.
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Random House, First printing 1945 VG/VG good clean dj. soe rubs and small split to top edge of dj. not price-clipped. full plastic sleeve. no inscripions or marginalia. 1st edition. wartime paper - notably tanned
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by Stein, Gertrude

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Random House, New York: (1945)., 1945 259p. Inked ownership of F. K. Richter, Chicago on title page. A few pink penciled underlinings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding with original spine and front board title labels. Binding slightly worn. Hardbound. First Printing. LIT BOX 2 0.0. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.
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Wars I Have Seen

by Gertrude Stein

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Random House (January 1, 1945). Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. (France, World War 2, German occupation, autobiography)
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War I Have Seen

by Stein, Gertrude

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New York: Random House, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Blue cloth, 8 x 6 inches, 259 pages; boards are clean and rich with the smallest amount of shelfwear, free end papers a bit age toned, otherwise pages are crisp, binding square and tight, previous owners name written on free end papers. No dust Jacket. A Random House wartime book.
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by Stein, Gertrude

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Random House, (1945). 1st edition.. Paper label on spine a bit darkened. Tiny fray to bottom spine and some shelf waer to lower edges. A nice, VG+ copy without d.j..
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Wars I Have Seen

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New York: Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First edition. Paper label on cloth spine. Small bleach spots on blue cloth boards and spine, else very good in fair only dustwrapper in pieces and lacking the spine.
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WARS I HAVE SEEN

by Stein, Gertrude

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First Edition; First Printing
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Livonia, Michigan, United States
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Random House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Blue cloth cover has wear to corners and caps but clean, bright, and overall in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Red stained top edge faded. Deckled fore edge very good. Pages are clean and pristine. ; 7.8 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches .
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WARS I HAVE SEEN

WARS I HAVE SEEN

by Stein, Gertrude

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Westport, Connecticut, United States
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New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ browned with wear throughout and small open tears. Front hinge started ; Written in longhand in occupied France, author Stein mixes concern over the international situation with her own day to day struggle in preserving her Picasso collection, her poodle Basket, and indeed her very life. stated first printing ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages .
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by STEIN, GERTRUDE

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B. T. Batsford 1945. First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine, upper page edges stained blue, frontispiece, 195pp, illus, VG (light creasing to bottom spine extrem with sl surface loss, moderate sun fading & foxing to spine, moderate staining to board edges, light fading & foxing to top page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to eps & terminals, owner's ex libris label & bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, tatty (heavy scuffing & chipping to spine & edges with 6cm loss to bottom of spine, 3cm open tear, price clipped, moderate internal foxing, some internal sellotape repairs)
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