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STEIN, GERTRUDE. Morceaux Choisis de la Fabrication des Américains. Histoire du Progrès d'une Famille. Paris: Éditions de la Montagne [1929]. Tall 8vo, original printed cream wrappers, uncut, plain glassine overlay, corners a little bumped, glassine torn; cloth folding case. First French Edition of 16 extracts from The Making of Americans, frontispiece portrait of Stein by Christian Bernard, COPY NO. 4 OF 5 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM SIGNED BY STEIN AND BERNARD AND WITH A PAGE OF AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR, of an edition of 620; THIS COPY HAS AN ADDITIONAL PAGE OF AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, signed at bottom by Stein on verso of the half-title, the two pages being the extract "A Portrait of [Stein's friend, the sculptor] Janet Scudder"; preface by Georges Hugnet. Laid in is a typed letter signed from the publisher to the painter Matilda Brownell, Paris, 11 March 1929, 1 page, 4to, regarding this copy, which she had requested (she had known Janet Scudder in their student days in Paris in the 1890s). Wilson D5a. (2)