Gertrude Stein
Selected Operas and Plays of Gertrude Stein.
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Edited and with an introduction by John Malcolm Brinnin. 0822931958 xvii/325 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in yellow and black cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine cloth and author's name is blind stamped on front cover. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket, with minor closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, is well preserved in mylar cover. Includes list of published works of Gertrude Stein compiled by Donald Gallup.
"As a writer for the theatre, Gertrude Stein was just as far ahead, or "outside" of the concerns of her time as she was as a novelist, essayist or poet. The range of this representative selection is wide enough to include her first miniature plays and her last, possibly grand, opera."