Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Free Shipping
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Publication Date: 1948
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. NY copyright 1948 (appears to be first edition.) Schirmer. 4to wraps. 9p. music score. Good plus, slight cover wear; no owner marks.
Published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York,, 1948
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Trade Edition. 4to Fine copy Wilson & Uphill E7b 8 pages loose in printed wrappers, as issued.
Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. 1946 [but 1947], New York, 1946
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition Signed
First Separate Edition. Slim quarto (30.25cm); original printed wrappers; 5,[1]pp. Signed by Bowles on the front wrapper, beneath his printed name. Light wear to extremities, some very faint foxing to front wrapper; Near Fine. A collaborative work between Bowles and Stein. The song first appeared in print in 1935, in New Music, A Quarterly of Modern Compositions; copyright was acquired by G. Schirmer, Inc. in 1946, and published by them on 27 March, 1947. Miller E38.
Hardcover in slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Limited Numbered Edition. Copy #65 of 275 (300 total with 25 hors commerce) About fine in red clamshell box. (Mild bump at upper edge of box. ) Printed on Arches Wove paper at the Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont. The cover paper for Gertrude Stein's monograph has been specially made by Paul Wong at the Dieu Donne Papermill. The box covered in imported Brillianta cloth. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Features a facsimile of Virgil Thomson's score of "Bugles & Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso" composed 30 April 1940 Paris, and Gertrude Stein's "Picasso" and "If I Told Him" a completed portrait of Picasso. (1948) A CD of Suzzan Craig on piano playing the Thomson piece at Steinway Hall, NYC on 11 November 1992 is set inside a compartment. A lovely production. ; 11 1/4" X 14 1/4".