STEIN, GERTRUDE. An Acquaintance with Description. London: The Seizin Press 1929. 8vo, original white cloth, spine a trifle darkened, slight stain on rear cover, glassine dust jacket; half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, 225 numbered copies, this copy from the out-of-series presentation issue without the numbered and signed limitation slip pasted to the verso of the half-title, PRESENTATION COPY TO BOB BROWN, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Bob Brown who likes acquaintance and description...Gertrude Stein." Brown was the American expatriate publisher of The Roving Eye Press (which published his own books) and avant-garde writer (Readies for Bob Brown's Machine, etc.); see Hugh Ford, Published in Paris, pp. 302-311. Wilson A13.

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STEIN, GERTRUDE. An Acquaintance with Description. London: The Seizin Press 1929. 8vo, original white cloth, spine a trifle darkened, slight stain on rear cover, glassine dust jacket; half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, 225 numbered copies, this copy from the out-of-series presentation issue without the numbered and signed limitation slip pasted to the verso of the half-title, PRESENTATION COPY TO BOB BROWN, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Bob Brown who likes acquaintance and description...Gertrude Stein." Brown was the American expatriate publisher of The Roving Eye Press (which published his own books) and avant-garde writer (Readies for Bob Brown's Machine, etc.); see Hugh Ford, Published in Paris, pp. 302-311. Wilson A13.