Operas and Plays

Operas and Plays by Gertrude Stein. 1932 Plain Edition. First edition of 500 copies, 400 pages. Plain Edition is the press Stein and Toklas created since publishers wouldn't publish Stein's work. Includes two operas and eighteen plays by the trailblazing modernist. Condition: Good. Missing original slipcase. Crease along spine, small white mark, corners slightly bent, darkening on back cover, According to… Read more about this item

Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. Overall very good.. Association first edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein in 1957 - and which Toklas repudiated. After Stein's death, Alice Toklas stewarded Stein's posthumous literary reputation, both assisting editors of new editions of Stein's texts and providing assistance… Read more about this item

(Barrytown, NY): Station Hill Press, (1987).. (1987).. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in silver on spine & front cover, in a blue dust wrapper. There is a light scoremark to the front cover. 400 pages. Near fine. <p>Reprint of the 1932 "Plain Edition" first edition.<p>Foreword by James R. Mellow.

(Paris): Plain Edition, (1932). First Edition. Original wraps. Very good. 400p small octavo, 1/500 copies printed. Inscribed by Stein "? and plays for Laura B.. ? it is a pleasure in more than this willingness? a sentence for you, but which is it it's always a sentence for you Gertrude Stein" A very good copy in… Read more about this item

Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. First Edition. 8vo., 400pp.; VG; bound in tan wrappers, black lettering on spine and front cover, in printed slipcase of like color; mild wear, small stain to spine, interior clean; 1 of 500 copies; shelved case 2. 1284285. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Paris: Plain Edition, , 1932. First edition, first printing, one of 500 copies only, this copy of the fragile publication notably attractive. Operas and Plays was the penultimate title issued by Plain Edition, the publishers which Stein co-founded with Alice Toklas in 1930, and collects 22 of Stein's dramatic works written between 1913 and 1931, including her crucial 1927… Read more about this item

Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo. 400pp. [1]-colophon. Tan wrappers with black lettering to front cover and spine. Light creasing to the spine hear the head and circular rubber stamp of William Katz, New York to the front endpaper, the copy clean and tight, in the original slipcase with only light wear. Printed… Read more about this item

Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. First. paperback. very good(+). Small 8vo, tan wrappers (spine sunned and with a vertical crease). Paris: Plain Edition, (1932). First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 500 copies. In the original printed board slipcase, which has a 1/4 inch chip at the base of the spine.<br/><br/>

Paris: 27 Rue de Fleurus, 1932, 1932. PLAIN EDITION INSCRIBED BY ALICE TOKLAS. 1 vol., limited to 500 copies, inscribed by Alice in her tiny hand on the half-title ""To George Whol with the same lovely pen and this / time and always with gratitude and remembrance / Alice Toklas", original printed tan wrappers, with the original card… Read more about this item

Station Hill Press, 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Foreword by James R. Mellow. First Station Hill edition of the rare Paris 1932 limited run. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.

Paris, [Maurice Darantière for] Plain Edition, August 1932. . First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author, one of 500 copies of Alice B. Toklas imprint; small 4to; light toning to leaves, otherwise unmarked internally; original tan wrappers printed in black, housed in the original tan slipcase, light toning and soiling; a pleasing copy. One of 500… Read more about this item

Barrytown/Station Hill Press, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1987. 1987 Stein, Gertrude OPERAS & PLAYS Foreword by James R Mellow Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, c1987 400pp 8vo Fine copy in near fine, slightly worn d/w.

Paris: Plain Edition, 1932. 400 pp. 19 x 14 cm. Brown stiff paper wrappers with black titling, in a matching slipcase. Printed in an edition of 500 copies by Maurice Darantiere. Some light toning to spine edge of slipcase, with rubbing to edges. Some toning to spine of book, with two small chips to either side of spine, and two… Read more about this item

Plain Edition, Paris., 1932. First edition. Octavo. 400 pages. Wrappers. 500 copies printed.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by her on the first blank. Apart from the author's name the inscription is indecipherable, although the words ''Belgium'' and ''France'' seem to emerge.Small gift inscription (dated 1933) inside front cover. Spine slightly darkened. Near fine in very good indeed card… Read more about this item

Station Hill Pr, 1987-02. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Plain Edition, Paris., 1932. First edition. Octavo. 400 pages. Wrappers. 500 copies printed.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the first blank: ''To Gerald in memory of pleasant ways and pleasant days always - Gertrude. Paris, February 26/36.'' The recipient is Lord Berners (1883-1950) the British aesthete, composer, writer and wit, whose home Faringdon House was frequented by a… Read more about this item