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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. Geography and Plays is a 1922 compendium of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness works. These stream-of-consciousness tests, elegiac essays or "portraits", were aimed to arouse "the excitingness of pure being" and can be shown as literature's response to Cubism, plasticity, and assortment. Though the fiction has been defined as "a marvellous and painstaking achievement in setting down approximately 80,000 words which mean nothing at all," it is regarded as among the influential pieces of Gertrude. </br></br>Gertrude Stein was a United States author, poet, dramatist, and collector of art works. She was born in the Allegheny West locality of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew in Oakland, California, Gertrude emigrated to Paris in 1903, and kept France as her dwelling for most of her life. She introduced a Paris salon, where the key characters of modernism in fiction and art,… Leer más

Robert B. Luce Inc., 1965. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1933). Hardcover first edition -. Good plus condition - some toning to the covers, but the print on the spine and the "A rose is a rose is a rose" circle on the front cover are quite legible, a bit of fraying to the top of the spine and toning to the pages. Hinges are intact, book is straight and tight. No dust jacket. . First edition. Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually by her friend and lover Gertrude Stein. It recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. Listed by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp.

New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. designed by McKnight Kauffer. Dust jacket has mild toning to the spine and white of rear panel with small wear at corners and tips. First Edition, First Printing. One of 600 copies. 8vo; 20.5 cm.; 8 inches tall; 114 pp.. Gertrude Stein, avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II. From the dust jacket: 'Now, with the war over, Gertrude Stein concerns herself with the plight of the American soldier preparing with anxiety his return to civilian life. Many revelations of what the GI's have been thinking were made to her when she became a kind of mother confessor to them. They flocked to her… Leer más

Paris: rue de Fleurus, circa 1930s. Als. One sheet, watermarked: "Extra.'21 x 13.5cm. An American woman of letters, she spent most of her life in France. Prescient as a collector, she contributed to the dissemination of cubism and in particular the work of Picasso, Matisse and Cézanne Signed autograph letter, 1 page in-8. In English. Rare missive from this feminist who was a catalyst in the development of literature and modern art. Gertrude Stein would like to introduce Julien Green to a compatriot, the formidable American critic and journalist Woollcott. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887-1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table....“... We are giving a tea party for Alexander Woollcott on the first of April, and we would like very much to have you come and meet him...”. Header, address of her hotel at "27 rue de Fleurus" in Montparnasse, which had become a center of artistic life, where, with her faithful… Leer más