Search Results: Books by stein gertrude hurd

HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

HarperCollins Publishers. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar Straus & Giroux (J), 1988-05. Hardcover. Good.

Farrar Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0865473269 . This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 162 pages .

Harper Design, October 2013. Hardcover. Used - Good. No DJ, personalized inscription written inside the front cover in ink, a few stains on the cover surface.

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Soft cover. Fine. Eight round pages printed in red, blue and black, measuring 9 inches across, two illustrations. With a broadside "Gift Certificate" on blue paper, with order form/envelope, announcing that the book will not be ready for Christmas. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Very Good. Very good pictorial blue on rose cloth hardcover in good bright pictorial dustjacket. First ed. first printing thus, North Point, 1988. No reader, remainder, or ex-library marks. Clean. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988.] New edition, first with the "afterword." Oblong 8vo., cloth, 162pp.

New York: William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher, 1939. Second Edition. Hardcover. Larger Octavo; G/fair; black spine with pinkish beige text; second edition; dust jacket exterior shows slight age toning; detached at front joint; partially missing lower spine; otherwise few chips to edges; age toning inside dj along spine; fragile; cloth exterior has mild exterior wear; some toning to spine; sturdy boards; rubbing wear to edges, mostly to fore corners; textblock exterior edges have reddish toning; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; mild offsetting to endpapers; cracking to gutter to pp 28-29; interior pages colored salmon red; illustrated; pp 67. 1354379. FP New Rockville Stock.

Harper Design Intl, 2013. Hardcover. New. 75 anv edition. 110 pages. 7.75x6.50x0.75 inches.

New York: William R. Scott Inc., 1939. Hardback. Fair. FIRST US EDITION. Small 4to, pp. [iv], 67, [1], incl. Hurd's charming illustrations in white and navy. Cream buckram spine, lettered in blue, navy paper boards, upper board lettered in white. Endpapers plus first and final pages white, text block pink, lettered in navy (at Stein's insistence). Externally shabby: worn, significant losses to spine ends, corners rounded. Endpapers and dedication page toned, liquid stain to top margins of first few leaves, grubby fingers marks, else, clean and tight. Fair. A binder's copy of Stein's only children's book, which had been helped into print by Margaret Wise Brown (whose own writing was influenced by Stein). Brown (1910-1952) had been hired in 1938 as W. R. Scott's first editor and tasked with recruiting contemporary authors to write children's books (she would herself go on to be a prolific and celebrated children's author). Stein, who was already at work on The World is Round, accepted with certain… Read More

Harper Design, 2013-10-29. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988-05-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: William R. Scott, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. 8 x 10.5 in. 67 pp. Very good in original blue boards and cream-colored binding that have toning and slight rubbing, and a good illustrated dust jacket that is price-clipped and has a few cuts and creases along the upper and lower edges. The front free endpaper has a tape mark. The remaining pages are bight pink and free of markings.

New York: William R. Scott. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Ex- Library. Usual library markings. Edgewear and rubbing to both the dustjacket and book - protected in a Mylar sleeve. See image. NOT priced-clipped. ; Tight binding and clean, unmarked interior. First Edition copy that is scarce at this price. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 67 pages .

New York: William R. Scott. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1939). First Edition Stated. Hardcover. Cream and dark blue boards, lettered in white on the front and in gilt to the spine. Former owner name and date to the front free endpaper. Booksellers ticket to the front pastedown. Minor bumps to the lower fore corners. The hinges show some minor discoloration from old binder's glue. The dust jacket has a stain to the verso of the upper spine. This does not show through to the exterior. Also a pinhole to this same area. Very minor wear to the upper corners. Original price of $2.50 to the front flap. Very minor other wear. Overall an excellent copy. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall .

New York, NY: William R. Scott, Inc., 1939. Book. Illus. by Hurd, Clement. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 67 pages. 4to. Very Scarce w/ DJ. Jacket unclipped. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Pink page leafs with dark blue text, dark blue and white illustrations. Dark blue cloth boards with white cloth spine. gilt title along spine, "a rose is a rose is a rose" printed in white on front cover. Heavy shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many small tears and small missing pieces along edges, light spine tanning, 3-inch tear running down spine edge of front cover. DJ in mylar. Previous owner's short inscription on front free endpaper. Light scuffing and tanning along cloth board edges, gilt lettering along spine is lightly scuffed. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Fair-plus condition..

Arion Press, 1986. limited to 400 copies; 2 volumes, 117, [1] + 46, [1] pp., hardcovers, fine with the balloon and a slightly rubbed two-piece box. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

San Francisco, CA: Arion Press, 1986. First Thus (In a limited edition of 400 copies) . Hardcover. Very Good. (120 and 24 pages, respectively). As-new copy, prroduced in an edition of 400 unnumbered copies, two volumes both bound in full rose-pink cloth with silk-screened titling, housed in a purpose-built, printed box. Though the box exterior is very lightly scuffed, the contents are in mint condition. Gertrude Stein selected Clement Hurd to illustrate her first and only children's book, THE WORLD IS ROUND, in 1939 from a field of competitors who submitted their work to her. For this Arion Press edition, Hurd’s wife — herself a noted children's book author — contributed a companion volume, THE WORLD IS NOT FLAT; a memoir detailing the history and creation of the original publication, including correspondence between Stein and Hurd. The main volume is circular, 9 inches in diameter, 120 pages. The companion volume is square, 6 by 6 inches, 48 pages. The type is Monotype Century Schoolbook… Read More

New York: William R. Scott. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in very good+ or better dust jacket. (67pp. ) (8 1/4" X 10 1/4") (Clear tape mends inside dust jacket. Light shelf-wear at spine ends. Traces of mild rubbing at edges. ) A bonafide classic. ; 8 1/4" X 10 1/4"; 67 pages .

New York: William R. Scott, Inc, 1939. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed limited first edition, one of 350 unnumbered copies signed by both Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd, in publisher's slip case. Very Good with offsetting from binder's glue on front cover, spine toned and with a bruise at the center, in a Very Good slip case with surface scratches and wear along the extremities. Signed by both the author and illustrator, scarce.