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New York: Something Else Press, Inc., 1969., 1969. 8vo. pp. 240. quartercloth. dw. First American Edition, originally published in France in 1930.. F. Hardcover.

Plain Edition / Imprimerie 'Union', 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy of the first edition in a good example of the original and befittingly 'plain' jacket (heavy chipping to jacket spine, come chipping to edges; book has wear to spine tips and corners; rear inner hinge just a bit tender).

Paris: Plain Editions, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Louis Untermeyer's copy with his bookplate on the front endpaper.About Very Good in a Fair example of the plain paper wrapper, split into three parts, covered in what appears to be the original glassine. Blue boards, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, hinges loose, text block slightly shaken. The first of Stein's Plain Edition books which sought to publisher her previously unpublished works.

Imprimerie ''Union'', Paris., 1930. First edition. Octavo. 240 pages. The first title in Stein's Plain Edition series. Recased in blue morocco with original, rather rubbed board panels laid onto front and rear covers; new endpapers. Original, much worn backstrip loosely inserted. ''REVIEW COPY'' written on title-page.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title page: ''For R.K. Hart, in memory of the pleasure of meeting him and his many Lucy Church Amiables, Gertrude Stein''. Repair to first blank. Light stain to margin of page 86. Very good.

Imprimerie ''Union'', Paris., 1930. First edition. Octavo. 240 pages. Blue boards. The first title in Stein's Plain Edition series.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title page: ''To Gerald who is giving us so much pleasure in liking our [?] may we have much more of the same - Gertrude.'' The recipient is Lord Berners (1883-1950) the British aesthete, composer, writer and wit, whose home Faringdon House was frequented by a wide range of artistic luminaries, including Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Igor Stravinsky, Oliver Messel, Cecil Beaton, the Mitfords, H.G. Wells, Tom Driberg, the Sitwells, Constant Lambert, William Walton and many others. Stein and Berners collaborated on the 1937 ballet, A Wedding Bouquet, based on a text by the former and set to music by the latter; the choreography was by Frederick Ashton. A later collaboration, on an opera based on Stein's libretto Dr Faustus Lights the Lights, was abandoned as Berners sank into a… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie "Union",, 1930. A nostalgic inscription to a fellow poet First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author upside down on the rear free endpaper, "To Charlotte Becker, whom I very well remember and who was so pleasant and amused in those early days, Gertrude Stein". Becker was a prolific poet, playwright, and illustrator, who later became a book reviewer for the Buffalo Evening News. Becker and Stein were introduced by their mutual friend Mabel Dodge Luhan in Paris in spring 1911. Luhan was a wealthy and influential advocate for Stein in the USA, and Becker's sometime lover. Lucy Church Amiably was the first title in Stein's Plain Editions series, published by her and her partner Alice B. Toklas after Stein had grown frustrated with finding a publisher for the title. Stein wanted the book "to look like a school book and to be bound in blue" (Stein, p. 298), and records the "childish delight amounting to ecstasy" seeing it in the windows of bookstores gave her in The… Read More