Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Henry McBride
Lucy Church Amiably.
Paris: Imprimerie "Union" 1930.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
First edition ("The plain edition an edition of first editions of all the work not yet Printed of Gertrude Stein."). 240pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Henry McBride. Original blue paper boards, printed in black. Worn copy, spine defective (faded, detached with half-inch loss from head), lower board detached, internally very good. In custom morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Wilson A14.
Item #40764
A fine association copy of this book (published by Stein and Toklas under their "Plain edition" imprint), inscribed by Stein on the flyleaf to her friend and champion, the American art critic Henry McBride: "To Henry dear / from Gertrude," With McBride's book ticket on the front pastedown
HENRY McBRIDE was an important art critic between 1915 and the early 1950s, a champion of twentieth century modernism, and a close friend of Gertrude Stein's. According to biographer James Mellow, Henry McBride, along with Carl van Vechten, was one of Stein's most important friends in the building of her American reputation. McBride was an art critic for the New York Sun whom Mellow calls "the most astute and entertaining art critic of his generation." From the time that they met in 1913, McBride became a powerful promoter of Stein's work in the States, "he mentioned her frequently and favorably in his columns for the Sun, often quoting her at length. His promotion of her work and her reputation during the years of World War I kept her name before the public ... "