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STEIN, GERTRUDE. The Making of Americans, Being a History of a Family's Progress. Thick 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light rubbing to joints, spine tips, and corners; closed tear to front flyleaf near gutter; housed together with below volume in custom cloth folding case. first american edition, signed and inscribed by the author to Helen Simpson, a socialite friend of Stein and Alice Toklas. First published the year before in France under the Contact Editions/Three Mountains Press imprint. One of 100 copies made from the sheets of the French edition. From the Estate of Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer-winning biographer. Mr. Silverman was a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University. Wilson A6c. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926
with-What Are Masterpieces. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, tiny gouge to rear board; dust jacket, closed tears to top of rear and front panels with old tape mends on verso, light soiling, minor edgewear; Gotham Book Mart label to rear pastedown. Limited edition, number 17 of 50 copies Signed by the author. Los Angeles, 1940. Wilson A35b.
