Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 154

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Geography and Plays. 8vo, patterned cloth-backed boards, printed spine label; dust jacket, moderate edgewear, remnants of a price sticker on backstrip. Boston: Four Seas, (1922)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed and signed by stein to Joanna Graham, a Detroit socialite who moved to Paris in the 1920s, where she fell in with the expatriate writers and befriended many of them. Included in the lot are 10 letters to Graham by such figures as Beatrice Warde (the British author and type designer) and French authors Jules Supervielle, Bernard Fay, Bougainville, Desjardins, Lucie Delarue-Marddrus, and Jacques Barzun. Vp, vd.