PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS

by Gertrude Stein

$1,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

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

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