Making of Americans, The.
First American Edition
—
Scarce
Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family’s Progress. Written by Gertrude Stein 1906-1908. (Paris: Contact Editions / Three Mountains Press, 1926.)
4to.; contemporary signature (“Ignatius McGuire / Princeton”) on front endpaper; leaves opened through page 96 (of 925); balance unopened; decorative paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, stamped in gilt; spine gilt lightly rubbed. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition, American issue, approximately 100 copies, the entire issue, prepared for Boni and Liveright from sheets of the 1925 Paris edition printed by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, but bound for the United States issue in patterned beige cloth with unglazed black cloth spine. Some were bound as this one with the original Contact Editions title page; others were bound with a new Boni and Liveright title page. Wilson A6c.
Scarce; this is only the second copy we’ve encountered in 30 years, and is from the library of book collector Ignatius McGuire. Though no press figures are recorded, it was issued on the heels of the successful Harcourt edition of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, of which 5400 copies were printed.
(#8189)
Print Inquire