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Stein, Gertrude.
Useful Knowledge.
Publisher: John Lane, Bodley Head Limited London;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 10032
First British Edition. Tall octavo, pp. [4], 207, [3]. Bound in black publishers’ cloth with arsenic green ruled border, and scarlet typographical border, and arsenic green and scarlet spine titles. In the original matching dust-jacket. Very very light spotting to cloth and mild toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket has some miniscule closed tears to spine tips and small chips to corners. Overall a tight, clean, bright Near Fine copy in a Very Good/Near Fine dust-jacket. Bold collection of Stein’s avant guarde, experimental works, both published and unpublished, in prose and in poetry, on America, Americans, and Americanness. £75.00