Rosamond the Second by Mears, Mary - 1910

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985. Inscribed by the author: Robertson Davies for Viola Sullivan. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket with edge-wear that is common to this title.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 108 pages; VG-/VG-; spine light blue unmarked paper; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; 2.5 inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket front; multiple small closed tears to upper edge of jacket front; small chips missing at crown and tail of jacket spine; two-inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket back; three-inch curved closed tear at jacket back; two small closed tears at upper edge of jacket back; speckled soiling across jacket overall; price uncut '$2.50'; board exposed at lower edges of boards; mild age toning to textblock; bookseller's sticker to back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved in Room G. 1346075. Special Collections.

An Elucidation by Gertrude Stein. Offprint from: transition, no. 1. [Paris:] transition, April 1927. 8° (195 x 144mm).
First edition, in original buff-coloured stapled yapped wrappers. 16pp. Minor crimping to top fore-edge yapped wrappers. Pages uncut. Usual age-toning. A Very Good copy of this fragile, ephemeral publication.
This scarce offprint was issued to correct the mis-printings to the text of the article that had just appeared in the first issue of the magazine "transition." (Wilson A10). Stein insisted on the printing of this supplementary pamphlet, but only enough copies to supply subscribers were printed; these were laid-in to copies of the first printing of the magazine issue. The pamphlet begins with an apology by Elliot Paul, the co-editor of "transition", stating: "Since, unfortunately, the version of Miss Gertrude Stein's 'An elucidation' printed in the April number of Transition, while containing the correct words, presented them in the wrong order (through an inadvertence in the… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985. Inscribed by the author: Robertson Davies for Viola Sullivan. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket with edge-wear that is common to this title.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 108 pages; VG-/VG-; spine light blue unmarked paper; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; 2.5 inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket front; multiple small closed tears to upper edge of jacket front; small chips missing at crown and tail of jacket spine; two-inch closed tear at lower edge of jacket back; three-inch curved closed tear at jacket back; two small closed tears at upper edge of jacket back; speckled soiling across jacket overall; price uncut '$2.50'; board exposed at lower edges of boards; mild age toning to textblock; bookseller's sticker to back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved in Room G. 1346075. Special Collections.

An Elucidation by Gertrude Stein. Offprint from: transition, no. 1. [Paris:] transition, April 1927. 8° (195 x 144mm).
First edition, in original buff-coloured stapled yapped wrappers. 16pp. Minor crimping to top fore-edge yapped wrappers. Pages uncut. Usual age-toning. A Very Good copy of this fragile, ephemeral publication.
This scarce offprint was issued to correct the mis-printings to the text of the article that had just appeared in the first issue of the magazine "transition." (Wilson A10). Stein insisted on the printing of this supplementary pamphlet, but only enough copies to supply subscribers were printed; these were laid-in to copies of the first printing of the magazine issue. The pamphlet begins with an apology by Elliot Paul, the co-editor of "transition", stating: "Since, unfortunately, the version of Miss Gertrude Stein's 'An elucidation' printed in the April number of Transition, while containing the correct words, presented them in the wrong order (through an inadvertence in the… Read More