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Published by Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300170971ISBN 13: 9780300170979
Seller: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.
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Published by Green Integer, 2000
ISBN 10: 1892295164ISBN 13: 9781892295163
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Published by Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300170971ISBN 13: 9780300170979
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Giselle Potter (illustrator). First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light wear on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Published by Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300170971ISBN 13: 9780300170979
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Giselle Potter (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 127 pages. First illustrated edition Stein's children's book. Illustrations by Giselle Potter. First illustrated edition. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Small bump on front lower book cover. The first ever illustrated edition of avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein's whimsical children's book "Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a birthday," muses Gertrude Stein in To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays. Written in 1940 and intended as a follow-up to her children's book The World Is Round, published the previous year, To Do is a fanciful journey through the alphabet. Each letter is represented by four names (including Gertrude for "G") and features a short story told in verse. "[This is] a birthday book I would have liked as a child," said Stein of To Do. Publishers rejected the manuscript as too complex for children, and it remained unpublished during Stein's lifetime. A text-only version issued from Yale University Press in 1957. Now, more than seventy years after Stein penned the story, To Do is appearing with illustrations, realizing the author's original concept for the book. Giselle Potter's witty and stylish illustrations provide a perfect complement to Stein's uniquely whimsical world of words, creating a truly delightful, often hilarious book that adults and children alike can appreciate and love.
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300170971ISBN 13: 9780300170979
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Potter, Giselle (illustrator). First Edition. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full plum cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 128 pages. Illustrations by Giselle Potter.
Published by Achilla Presse Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hamburg, Bremen, Friesland, 2000
ISBN 10: 3928398695ISBN 13: 9783928398695
Seller: Versandantiquariat Abendstunde, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: gut. Erstes bis zweites Tausend. Fadengehefteter illustrierter Pappeinband mit Schmuckvorsätzen. Die Einbandkanten berieben, die Schnitte etwas fleckig, ansonsten guter Erhaltungszustand. "Vichy-Frankreich, 1940: Die jüdische Amerikanerin Gertrude Stein lebt seit diesem Winter im Dorf Bilignin unweit Belleys, bisher nur ihr Sommerwohnsitz, denn Paris ist von den Deutschen besetzt. Sie beendet den Roman "Ida" und beginnt "Frau Reinelt". Darüberhinaus flüchtet sie sich ins Schreiben eines Kinderbuches. Es geht um Buchstaben, es geht um Namen, die mit diesen Buchstaben beginnen, und es geht um die Berechtigung, zu sein, wer man ist. Gertrude Stein versucht, keine Gedanken an ihre unsichere Situation in ihr Bewußtsein dringen zu lassen. Als "Sachen machen. Ein Buch von ABCs und Geburtstagen" beendet ist, erfordert das Schneiden der Buchsbaumeinfassungen in ihrem Garten ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit. "Sachen Machen" ist ein Buch von ABCs und Geburtstagen, denn alle Namen beginnen mit einem Buchstaben, und alle müssen einen Geburtstag haben. Namen und Identitäten haben Gertrude Stein schon länger beschäftigt, und in diesem fibelartig das Alphabet abarbeitenden Lesebuch haben alle Geburtstag, und wenn nicht, wollen sie einen." (Verlagstext) Gertrude Stein (* 3. Februar 1874 in Allegheny, heute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; ? 27. Juli 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Verlegerin und Kunstsammlerin. Sie ließ sich 1903 in Paris nieder und teilte ihren berühmten, mit zeitgenössischer Kunst ausgestatteten Salon in der Rue de Fleurus 27 zuerst mit ihrem Bruder, dem Kunstsammler und -kritiker Leo Stein, und ab 1913 mit ihrer Lebensgefährtin Alice B. Toklas. Auf Steins Einladungen hin trafen sich dort zu der Zeit unbekannte Persönlichkeiten der künstlerischen Avantgarde wie Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque und Juan Gris, deren Werke die Geschwister Stein erwarben. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, ab den frühen 1920er Jahren, suchten junge US-amerikanische Schriftsteller der Moderne wie beispielsweise F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson und Ernest Hemingway den Salon auf, deren literarisches Werk vom experimentellen Schreibstil Steins beeinflusst wurde. Gertrude Stein zählt wie Virginia Woolf zu den ersten Frauen der klassischen literarischen Moderne. Sie schrieb experimentelle Romane, Novellen, Essays, Gedichte, literarische Porträts und Bühnenwerke, in denen sie sich über sprachliche und literarische Konventionen hinwegsetzte, sodass viele Kritiker und Leser ihr Werk als zu schwierig empfanden, sich darüber belustigten oder es ignorierten. Erst ihr mehr im konventionellen Stil verfasstes Buch The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933 in New York veröffentlicht, erreichte einen hohen Bekanntheitsgrad und machte sie zu einer literarischen Berühmtheit. (Wikipedia) In deutscher Sprache. 183, (1) pages. 8° (122 x 205mm).
Published by Yale U. Pr., New Haven, CT, 2011
ISBN 10: 0300170971ISBN 13: 9780300170979
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Giselle Potter (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Very fine in VF dustjacket. 'With Illustrations by Giselle Potter and an Introduction by Timothy Young'.
Published by Yale Books, New Haven CT,, 2011
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Square quarto; hardcover; 126pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Yale University Press,, New Haven,, 2011
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
First Edition
HC. First Edition 127, 1 pp, Illustrations Magenta cloth over board, illustrated dust jacket. Fine, fine, still in shrink wrap. New.
Published by Green Integer, 2001
ISBN 10: 1892295164ISBN 13: 9781892295163
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pictorial stiff card binding and contents unmarked, lightly handled, a good neat copy.
Published by Peter Holland, Christopher, Louise and Robert Haas, Tujunga, CA, 1947
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First edition. Single sheet, folded twice to form [4] pages, printed in black and red. Slight handling wear, slightly musty, near fine. One of about 100 copies distributed to friends by Robert and Louise Haas. A previously unpublished extract from Alphabets and Birthdays, eventually issued in 1957 as part of the Yale edition of the Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein. This extract, concerning the delay of the Haas' wedding due to measles, was sent from France by Alice B. Toklas after Stein's death and was then issued privately as a Christmas remembrance of Stein. (Stein's Prothalamium was published in 1939 to celebrate the Haas' wedding, see Wilson A33.) Wilson A45.
Published by Tujunga, California, privately printed, 1947., 1947
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Tujunga, California, privately printed, 1947. One of about 100 copies distributed to friends by Robert and Louise Haas. A previously unpublished extract form Alphabets and Birthdays, eventually issued in 1957 as part of the Yale edition of the Unpublished Works of Gertrude Stein. This extract, concerning the delay of the Haa's wedding due to measles, was sent from France by Alice B. Toklas and was then issued privately as a Christmas remembrance of Gertrude Stein. - Scarce. - Wilson A 45. Very good copy. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.