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What Are Masterpieces

What Are Masterpieces Hardcover - 1940

by STEIN, Gertrude

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Los Angeles: The Conference Press, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Illustration by Picabia. Fine in modestly soiled very good dust jacket. Prospectus for the book laid in, with stapled order form affixed; the staple has offset a little on the front fly.
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  • Title What Are Masterpieces
  • Author STEIN, Gertrude
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 434
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Conference Press, Los Angeles
  • Date 1940
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 581689
  • ISBN 9780299134709 / 0299134709
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050263
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.520

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From the rear cover

This book offers readers a fascinating view of the range of Gertrude Stein's styles and her radical manipulation of genres during the most fertile and prolific years of her avant-garde experiments--1908 to 1920.

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  • Library Journal, 01/01/1994, Page 172

About the author

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is also the author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and dozens of other novels, plays, poems, and stories. Cyrena N. Pondrom is professor of English and director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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