Fiction. "USEFUL KNOWLEDGE is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed," writes Gertrude Stein in her "Advertisement for this Book"--an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. Despite her long expatriation, she "always remained" in her words, "firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania." Indeed--physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance ...
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Fiction. "USEFUL KNOWLEDGE is pleasant and therefore it is very much to be enjoyed," writes Gertrude Stein in her "Advertisement for this Book"--an apt characterization of the experience of reading it sixty years after its disappearance from print. Despite her long expatriation, she "always remained" in her words, "firmly born in Allegheny Pennsylvania." Indeed--physical detachment from her homeland seems only to have deepened her love for the country, a passion very nearly erotic, that blossomed in this private remembrance that is both tender and humorous. War, Woodrow Wilson, Chicago, Sherwood Anderson--such is the range of her intimate concerns. As for the significant questions to which her writings respond: "Wherein Iowa differs from Kansas and Indiana" and "Wherein the South differs from the North," useful knowledge indeed, when the thought is opened along with the word in these extraordinary prose inventions. Keith Waldrop's introduction furnishes new insight into the process and development of Stein's infamous style as always more intricately evolving than is recognized. And Edward Burns provides "useful knowledge about USEFUL KNOWLEDGE," the kind of information about Stein's text that we rarely find when we most want it.
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xxxii, 207p., advertisement by Stein, frontis-portrait by W.G. Rogers, foreword, introduction, notes, light wear and spotting to covers, previous owner's name on endpaper as well as a Strand price label, else a good second US edition thus, a hardcover bound in white cloth boards and unclipped but mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Wilson A12c. Originally published in 1928. New material added from Waldrop & Burns.
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Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is Very Good in a Good dustjacket. Mild wear to book, previous owner name & address on ffep. Jacket split along front gutter(in mylar). Hardcover.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First English edition. Octavo. 207pp. Light dampstain on topedges of last few pages in the gutters and on rear board, small offsetting on pages 89-90, spine ends rubbed, about very good in a fair to good only dust jacket split at the internally taped spine, some loss of the spine, short chips on edges.
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Very Good in Fair jacket. First English edition. Octavo. 207pp. Slight offsetting on endpapers, spotting on boards, very good in a fair dust jacket with the front panel and flap detached (but present), splitting at the rear flap fold, and tiny tears.
Add this copy of Useful Knowledge to cart. $2,407.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1928 by Payson & Clarke Ltd.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. First edition. Signed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper, "To George from Gertrude Stein." [x], 207 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red. Very Good+ with faint toning to spine and wear at the ends and corners, offsetting at publisher's foreword and rear blank with moderate marginal foxing, and bookseller's ticket at rear pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped along edges; light dampstaining to front joint, repair to verso. A collection of experimental prose and poetry that Stein intended as a defense against her critics. Uncommon in the jacket and scarcely, if ever, found signed. Wilson A12a.
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