Gertrude First Reader Three by Stein (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor wear, light soiling & toning to boards. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Water damage discoloration along foredge of pages throughout. Otherwise Text and images unmarked. Dj quite shelf worn with scuffs, creases, chipping, light soiling, water damage & small tears in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 83p octavo. A very good copy in price clipped dust jacket. Dj nicked and with a closed tear on one front corner. Scratches on the rear panel.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rose, Francis - Decorator (illustrator). 83 Pages. The only information on the copyright page is 'Printed by Hely's Limited Dublin Ireland'. Boards are light gray-green with red decorations on front and red spine lettering with decorated endpapers. No defects noted to this as new book with flawless interior text pages. Previous owner's last name and 1949 date in red on the half-title page. No other marks or stamps. Dust jacket is a bit tattered with a couple of very small pieces missing. The jacket is complete with the flap price $3. Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874 She studied at Radcliffe during the years 1893 to 1897 and attended Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1897 to 1902. In 1902 she travelled the Continent with her family and decided to stay on in France indefinitely. Most American GI's passing through Paris got to know Gertrude Stein, not as someone exotic and arty, but as a vigorous, earthy old lady who insisted on good housekeeping, direct questions, and direct answers. She stayed in her beloved France (at her farm in Belignen) all during the Occupation and returned to her spotless, polished apartment on the Rue Christine after the Liberation. She was a familiar figure walking along the river, leading her white poodle, Basket. She liked to sit around Red Cross Clubs talking to the boys. If celebrities of the 20'S and 30's found her inaccessible, infantrymen of the 40'S found her as easy to talk to as their own grandmothers. Active to the end, she died in the spring of 1946, at the American hospital at Neuilly, a brief week after attending a reception for Richard Wright at the publishing house of Gallinard. Gertrude Stein's last and perhaps most delightful book is this posthumously published 1948 edition cleverly designed and illustrated by Francis Rose and beautifully produced by Maurice Fridberg of Dublin and London. A collector's item of charm and originality, it is barely possible that the genius of Gertrude Stein will live on in this unpretentious little volume when the results of her head-on collision with the Lost Generation have long since been forgotten. Like Alice In Wonderland it is a juvenile for adults. There are no tender buttons in this one, no insistence on geography and roses, nothing about Ida or Brewsie and Willie or Picasso and Matisse or Alice B. Toklas or Paris, France.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Irish printing, in original dust jacket. Jacket faded and tattered on edges, corners. Clean throughout inside with tight binding.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Francis Rose (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, near fine, in very good dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. Illustrations by Francis Rose.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Francis Rose (illustrator). First Edition, First Impression. Original price of 7/6 net printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has chips and archival repaired tears now protected with paper backed polyester film. Previous owners name and February 3, 1947 on verso of ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frances Rose (illustrator). Boston: Houghton Mifflin-The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1948. VG/VG. "Printed by Hely's Limited Dublin Ireland" on the copyright page. Decorated/illustrated by Francis Rose. The book is tight with solid hinges and grey cloth with pink decorations. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages are slightly age-toned. Patterned endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) with a few chips and light shelf wear (see photos). Protected in a Mylar cover. 83 pages. 5½ x 8½" tall. Published after her death in 1946. This is a short book, but It's true Stein writing joyfully. Twenty lessons, followed by three short plays, ?The First Reader? is a childishly playful book where Stein takes the reader back to early experiences with written words ? when their size, shape, and sound were as consequential as the information they conveyed. The three, short, one-act plays consist of ?In a Garden,? ?Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters,? and ?Look and Long.?

24 cm, gebunden Pp. 125 S. : Ill. ; Sehr guter Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket Condition: 'Very Good' Condition: 'Very Good' Notes: Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 83p octavo. A very good copy in price clipped dust jacket. Dj has plenty of edgewear. Rubbing and discoloration to the rear panel.

Softcovers, 83pp. Top edges roughly cut. Possibly a proof or facsimile. With the decorated title page (Francis Rose).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Minor Wear Dj. 1st Edition. A lovely copy of the first edition in dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Yellow cloth spine over plain paper boards. Toning overall, fine in near fine dust jacket with chip reat top edge, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rose, Francis (illustrator). First Thus. First posthumous publication. First Edition [Maurice Fridberg, Dublin, 1946]; 83pp; grey papered cloth boards, green titling on spine some spotting, boards slightly bowed, decorated endpapers, owner's details on first blank page, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, priceclipped, spine discoloured, bumped at extremities. First posthumous work of literary great Gertrude Stein. Numerous drawings & decorations by Francis Rose.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The fanciful illustrations of Francis Rose augment this fine, little homage to Gertrude Stein's mastery of word-play, the first item published posthumously upon her death in 1946. Bound simply in white paper over boards, white cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wear to panels, but a bit sunning to and light chipping along edges, sunned at spine, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. 83 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket sunned on top edge and along spine, short tear to edge of rear panel and a few small ships and tears along edges - still attractive and intact otherwise. Decorative endpapers, top edge dyed pink. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 041911.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Excellent condition. Jacket spine is tanned but legibility is not impacted. Jacket and cover edges are shelf worn. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket has some chipping.

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Francis Rose (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three Plays. Decorated by Francis Rose. First edition. 83pp. A reader with silly stories, and three silly plays. Oh my what silly silly plays. Small spots to cloth spine of book, and chips to dust wrapper, including half-inch chips to spine ends. Oh yes aha there are chips are chips to the dust wrapper. On the whole near-fine with very good yes very good dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. First edition. REVIEW COPY WITH PUBLISHER'S SLIP LAID IN. Grey cloth decorated in pink, patterned endpapers. Fine in dust jacket which is worn about the edges with chipping and closed tears as well as faded at the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. 8vo. Decorations by Francis Rose. Dust jacket (price clipped; chip; minor nicks; short tears). Very good. 83 pages. Previous owner's gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. Printed by Hely's Limited, Dublin, Ireland. Wilson A37d. One of 2,000 copies published.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pink pictorial dust jacket; 83pp.; pictorial endpapers, text illus. throughout. Chips and a few tiny losses to jacket extremities, notably to top spine corner of upper panel (not touching image or text), extremities darkened, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better in Very Good jacket. WILSON A37c.

First edition, with dust jacket. In good condition. Binding tight. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket not price clipped. Tears to some edges of dust jacket. By Francis Rose Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 83. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's white cloth with green lettering at spine. Black and white line drawings throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket, with slight edgewear and slight fading. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. decorated by Francis Rose, a nice copy in chipped dust jacket with closed tears and small pieces missing. first edition; 83 pages.

gebundene Ausgabe. 125 S. gutes Exemplar // KINDER- UND JUGENDLITERATUR, BILDENDE KUNST L043 9783854152958 *.* Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 660.

First Edition. First edition. A book for young readers with illustrations by Francis Rose. INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER AND BINDER, "For Michael/ From Maurice/ and/ George E. Hetherington/ book maker/ Nov. 1946." 8vo quarter yellow cloth stamped in black, pale gray paper boards. Good or better with light soiling, few small stains, and some bumping to edges; in good or better dust jacket tanned at spine which is somewhat nicked and rubbed. Signed.

First Edition, 1946. A Fine hardcover copy white linen backed off-white paper covered boards, in pink decorated dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with mild fading and tiny loss to spine-ends.

Illustrations and dust-wrapper design by Sir Francis Rose Very nice copy in slightly soiled and worn dust-wrapper Wilson & Uphill A37c Unrecorded variant binding with white linen spine. First English (expanded) and First Illustrated Edition.