STEIN, Gertrude.

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An Acquaintance with Description. First edition, number 196 of 225 copies signed by the author on the limitation slip affixed to the verso of the half-title. Stein signed the slips in Paris and returned them to London to be tipped in. This is the second work published by the Seizin Press, which was founded in 1927 by Robert Graves and Laura Riding.The work is part of Stein's explanatory series about writing that began in 1923 with An Elucidation. It was written following her 1926 lecture tour of Cambridge and Oxford. "The piece is an attempt to make a landscape her own... Stein considers how we apprehend what we see and how we compose our perceptions in words" (Dydo, p. 504).

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