PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS
New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. A collection of essays and intimate word portraits by Stein, the subjects chiefly being the many artists and writers within her circle: Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, T.S. Eliot, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Van Vechten, Sherwood Anderson, and others. An uncharacteristically attractive copy, in the vanishingly scarce dustjacket. Wilson A22.a. Item #7423
First Printing, one of 1,800 copies. Octavo (21cm); photo-illustrated cloth boards and rough-woven maroon and yellow cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; maroon topstain; publisher's original printed cellophane dustjacket with printed pale grey paper flaps; [ii],[10],11-264pp. Small bookseller's ticket to lower rear pastedown, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the boards clean, and spine label and topstain unfaded. In the original printed cellophane dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), slightly wavy with some very subtle toning, split along the front and rear joints, with the rear flap detached (but present); Good.
Price: $1,250.00