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STEIN, Gertrude. The Making of Americans, being a History of a Family's Progress. Paris: Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press [1925].
4o. Original (?) half morocco, spine gilt lettered, original wrappers bound in; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. The original publisher's prospectus laid in: "This great work, whose publication has been impatiently awaited, will appear in the Autumn of 1925... The edition... will be limited to 305 copies as follows: 300 on simili-Japan, thin but opaque and durable... In paper covers... In half leather." According to Wilson there are no publisher's copies in leather binding. The copies where bound in a commercial bindery. Wilson A 6a.
4o. Original (?) half morocco, spine gilt lettered, original wrappers bound in; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. The original publisher's prospectus laid in: "This great work, whose publication has been impatiently awaited, will appear in the Autumn of 1925... The edition... will be limited to 305 copies as follows: 300 on simili-Japan, thin but opaque and durable... In paper covers... In half leather." According to Wilson there are no publisher's copies in leather binding. The copies where bound in a commercial bindery. Wilson A 6a.