Making of Americans, The.
Stein, Gertrude. “The Making of Americans.” In The Transatlantic Review. II.3. (September 1924).
8vo.; partially unopened; six pages of ads in the rear; beige wrappers; printed in navy.
First edition of one of nine excerpts of the book to appear in The Transatlantic Review. Though The Making of Americans is now considered to be one of the landmark literary texts of the twentieth century, it came very close to never being published. Stein completed the book in 1911 and submitted the first half of the manuscript to English publisher Grant Richards. Citing its length and density, Richards became the first of many publishers to reject it. Fortunately, in 1924, Ernest Hemingway, longtime friend and supporter of Stein’s work, convinced Ford Madox Ford, the editor of The Transatlantic Review to publish excerpts of the book in serial form. Selections from The Making of Americans were published in nine of the journal’s total run of twelve issues; this ten-page excerpt was the fifth printed in the series. (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/ study/4_2br_stein.html)
Also present in this issue are letters to the editor by Stein and Pound, and pieces by Mary Butts (“Pythian Ode”), Hannah Berman (“The Beggar”), Ernest Hemingway (“Pamplona Letter”), Ford himself (from “Some Do Not”), and others. (Ford, Hemingway, McAlmon, and others also contributed to a “Conrad Supplement.”)
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