Wars I Have Seen
by Gertrude Stein
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/Fair
- Seller
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Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Item Price
£141.33
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About This Item
"Wars I Have Seen", by Gertrude Stein
1945 - Rare First Edition, First Printing
Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
8 3/4" x 5 3/4" - 200 Pages
The dust jacket is in fair condition with chips, tears and tanning. There is some tape on the inside of the jacket and it is price clipped. The hardcover book is in fair to good condition. The blue boards have fading on the edges and there is a brown spot on the front board. There is slight separation in the gutter on the front end page. The pages are all in good condition, free from rips, tears, bends and writing. The pages are lightly toned and the book is slightly cupped. This is a rare first printing of Gertrude Stein's book about "a resourceful woman, who remained in France during the four years of the German occupation, and wrote it in long-hand under the noses of the Nazis who were often quartered in her house".
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1945 - Rare First Edition, First Printing
Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
8 3/4" x 5 3/4" - 200 Pages
The dust jacket is in fair condition with chips, tears and tanning. There is some tape on the inside of the jacket and it is price clipped. The hardcover book is in fair to good condition. The blue boards have fading on the edges and there is a brown spot on the front board. There is slight separation in the gutter on the front end page. The pages are all in good condition, free from rips, tears, bends and writing. The pages are lightly toned and the book is slightly cupped. This is a rare first printing of Gertrude Stein's book about "a resourceful woman, who remained in France during the four years of the German occupation, and wrote it in long-hand under the noses of the Nazis who were often quartered in her house".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dara's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124
- Title
- Wars I Have Seen
- Author
- Gertrude Stein
- Format/Binding
- Good
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford LTD.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wars I Have Seen
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- Antique & Collectibles;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....