Gertrude Stein was a central figure in the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century. She hosted the “New Moderns” which gathered in her Paris salon. She was an imposing figure, possessed of a remarkable self-confidence and a commanding manner.  With her partner Alice B. Toklas, she hosted such greats as Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, James Joyce and many others. Her writing which has come to be well respected, has been for the most part overshadowed by her more prolific contemporaries

Description: INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GERTRUDE STEIN on the front free end page. Hard bound in dust jacket. First edition, with first printing stated on the copyright page. Wear to jacket that shows chipping to edges. Interior clean and binding sound. RARE!

Bookseller Inventory # 46678

Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera to be Sung
Gertrude Stein

$900

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Virginia Woolf was one the most innovative writers of the 20th century. She was a significant figure in London literary society, and probably the best known member of the Bloomsbury Group. In 1917 along with Leonard Woolf she founded the Hogarth Press, which subsequently published Virginia’s novels along with works by T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and others. Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic nervous breakdowns and associated illnesses. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks until her suicide on 28 March 1941. After the final attack of mental illness Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home where she drowned. Woolf’s suicide, like Sylvia Plath’s, have much colored the interpretation of both her work and her life.

Description: First UK Edition. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Hardbound with paper boards and a maroon cloth spine, no dust jacket as issued. The Hogarth Press, 1921. “Monday or Tueday” by Virginia Woolf, with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Light wear to boards and edges. Some offsetting to pages opposite the woodcuts – interior otherwise clean. Binding sound. Protected in mylar cover.

Bookseller Inventory # 65548

Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf

$1650

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Peter Beard was an American artist who’s work documented the beauty and romance of Africa, and the tragedy of its endangered wildlife. He will be remembered for the artwork he created; a combination of newspaper clippings, old photos, fashion photography, found objects, all of which was combined with his own original drawings and collage.

Description: SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Peter beard with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATION . Hardbound in dust jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket shows some fading to its spine and light edgewear. Jacket now protected in a clear Brodart protective cover. Book shows light wear and signs of use to its boards and spine but is otherwise in good condition. Light foxing to page edges and end pages & small non-authorial gift inscription present on front free end page – interior pages are otherwise clean and free of any writing or similar marks. The binding is sound.

Bookseller Inventory #71554

Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa
Peter Beard

SOLD

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A Way of Seeing was Helen Levitt’s first published collection of photographs and features 50 incredible gravure plates of her pictures taken on the streets of Harlem and the Lower East Side. Levitt’s photographs are beautiful underrated works. Her pictures have sentiment without being sentimental, always maintaining an objective distance. The New York Times stated, “Helen Levitt was the first American photographer to fully comprehend the essence of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographic message and put it into practice.”

Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. First Edition. Photographs by Helen Levitt, with an essay by James Agee. Dust Jacket and book show light wear and some minor age toning, but otherwise in good condition. A bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Interior pages are otherwise clean with no writing, signs of ownership, or similar marks. Binding sound. One of the Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Rare and sought after!

Bookseller Inventory #71787

A Way Of Seeing
Levitt, Helen; Agee, James

SOLD

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