Description
The signed limited edition Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein, signed by Stein and Thornton Wilder.
Octavo, viii, 62pp, [2]. Publisher’s turquoise cloth with black and gilt decoration. Small chip in one leaf (p. 39), light sunning to the spine. Housed in the publisher’s original black paper-covered slipcase, corner lacking from bottom board.
One of 120 numbered copies, of which 100 were offered for sale, this being number 97. Signed by both Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder on the limitation page.
(Wilson A25b.)
Stein delivered the four lectures at the University of Chicago in 1935 during her celebrated return to the United States after more than thirty years abroad.
