Paris, France.
Stein, Gertrude. Paris, France. New York and London: Scribner’s Sons and B.T. Batsford, 1940.
8vo.; full-color frontispiece illustration; eight other reproductions throughout; navy topstain; red cloth; stamped in blue; multi-colored pictorial dust-jacket; some small tears to the spine; light wear to extremities.
First edition of Stein’s “personal tribute to Paris and to France,” (dust-jacket flap) written in the months before and after the outbreak of WWII. Wilson A34a. Frontispiece reproduction of Juan Gris’s Roses, with other reproduced illustrations of art by Picasso, Lascaux, and others; dust-jacket designed by Sir Francis Rose.
Stein celebrates the city which she referred to often as her true “hometown,” and tries to capture the essence of the French spirit, as manifested in everything from French fashion and cooking, to popular sayings and cultural traditions. Stein also highlights the recent unity between France and England that has developed, fostered by the emergence of a common enemy. Stein concludes the book with a dedication to the citizens of France and England “who are going to civilise the twentieth century and make it a time when anybody can be free, free to be civilised and to be” (p. 120).
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