First Reader by Gertrude Stein (57 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. English-German text. Subtitled: "Three Plays - Drei Theaterstucke". Clean and tightly bound copy with extremely slight wear to cover gloss, still fine. Includes publisher's card laid in. No dust jacket as issued.

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.

Condition: Near Fine. Francis Rose (illustrator). First Edition. Apparent first edition, no statement otherwise. Illustrated with drawings by Francis Rose. Clean copy, former owner's bookplate on reverse of first leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. Edition. Bright and tightly bound in pale gray cloth with unique pink teacups surrounding a chair design. Extremely slight bumping to two corner tips and spine, otherwise fine. The unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket shows light chipping and edge wear, fading on spine and minor rubbing.

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.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. 176pp. Wrappers. Sunning and foxing to the spine, with bumping to the spine ends, and rubbing to the wrappers, still very good or better. For voice and piano. The front cover states, "John Bernard Myers, in association with Bob Cato, presents a new musical revue [staring] Michael Anthony, Joy Garrett, Frank Giordano, and Sandra Thorton, [with] production conceived and directed by Herbert Machiz.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Decorated by Francis Rose. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. A little soiled, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good hardcover with very good unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age. Dust jacket has closed tears on cover, and back. Spine has open tears on heel of spine.

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: Good. Rose, Francis (illustrator). Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and tanned. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn, creased and nicked. Jacket spine head is chipped. Boards are marked, scored and tanned. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped. Page block and some pages are lightly tanned and marked. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.

Gr. 8°. 125 Seiten. Mit farbigen Zeichnungen von / drawings by Günter Brus. Original-Pappband. (Private Widmung verso Vorsatz). -- 1. Auflage. Zweisprachige Paralleltextausgabe (deutsch-englisch), durchgehend mit farbigen Illustrationen des Wiener Aktionskünstlers Günter Brus. Sprache: 0.

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.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 'The First Reader' comprise twenty lessons; followed by 'In a Garden', 'Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters' and 'Look and Long'; illustrations and decorations throughout by Francis Rose. Owner signature dated in the year of publication. Very good in good dustwrapper faded on the spine and nicked at edges. book.

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.