Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
STEIN, GERTRUDE. Portraits and Prayers. 8vo, cloth-backed photo-illustrated boards; original mylar dust jacket, some edgewear; custom 1/4 morocco clamshell case. New York, (1934)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed and signed by stein "For John S. Behr who bought this book at my first auction. November 9/34." With a Typed Letter Signed by an editor at Scribner's concerning a scarce anthology of humor writing (Tom Masson's Annual; Garden City, 1925) that contained the first appearance of Stein's "If I Told Him."