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New York: Random House, 1934. Stated First printing. Hardcover. Very good +. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Sm 8vo. Black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. 57 pages. [Wilson A 21.a] Offsetting to rear free end paper and rear paste down where a newspaper clipping was laid in. Book store sticker (Beacon Book Shop [,] Norfolk in Virginia) on rear paste down.. Lacking the dust-jacket.

New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Black cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Neat owner bookplate on front pastedown with a three verse poem stamped on rear fly, cracked gutter with modestly soiled boards, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

NY: Random House, 1934. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/chipping, smalll tears, unclipped price, in mylar; black c w/gilt spine titles; 57 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8 Vo.

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. No jacket. 1934 Hard Cover. 57 pp. Introduction by Carl van Vechten. Four Saints in Three Acts, opera consisting of a prologue and four acts, with libretto by Gertrude Stein and music by Virgil Thomson. Stein completed the libretto in 1927, and Thomson finished the piano score in 1928; the score was orchestrated in 1933 and published in 1934, and the opera was first performed in 1934. Thomson divided Stein’s libretto into scenes and acts and added two figures representing the laity to the cast of characters. The plotless opera, set in 16th-century Spain, treats two historical figures, the Spaniards St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and two fictional figures, St. Settlement and St. Chavez. - Britannica

New York: G. Schirmer Very good+ (soft light edgewear and sunning to edges of the soft covers and some insect damage to cover edges, text is clean and solid). Copyright date 1948 but edition and printing date not stated. Contains 8 pages of pictures from the original production, scenario by Maurice Grosser, and complete vocal score with piano accompaniment. 144 pages.. Soft Cover.

New York: Random House, 1934. First edition thus. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Black cloth, light spotting, some corners folded and back pages, one small tear else a good copy. First edition thus. 1 vols. Small 8vo.

Pages 157 pp.4to. Stiff paper covers. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated. Minor wear and soil, else in very good condition. Previous owner’s paper pocket pasted inside front cover.

NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. B0012HDD4A . Introduction by Varl Van Vechten. Stated first printing. Very good in a very good (age darkened, minor edge wear) dust jacket.; 57 pages .

New York: Random House, 1934. First edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt. 57 pp. A handsome copy of the book, generally very good, the dustjacket has some edgewear and some chipping, a larger chip to the jacket's spine panel. FIRST EDITION. "Gertrude Stein's strange and baffling prose cadences provide a challenge to reader and publisher alike. Random House accepts the challenge and offers the text of Miss Stein's most disturbing and inciting work." - from dustjacket blurb.

New York: G. Schirmer, 1948. First. paperback. very good. Scenario by Maurice Grosser. Complete Vocal Score. Thin folio, pink wrappers printed in red & black; spine faded. New York: G. Schirmer, (1948).<br/><br/>

Random House, 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. Random House; New York, 1934. Hardcover. First Printing. A Very Good, black cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some age spotting/foxing to boards and spine, sunning along board and spine edges, some age toning to pages, bit of discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers, some scattered foxing to text block edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, sunning to panels/flaps/spine and verso, bit of edge/corner wear, chip to mid spine, small crease bottom panel corners, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 57pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

Black covers with lettering on the spine. Inscribed by Virgil Thomson who composed the music for this opera. The DJ is missing the spine and large pieces of the top but the title and author on the front is intact.

Random House,, 1934-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1934 Random House first edition first printing inscribed to previous owner by composer Virgil Thompson and dated March 11.64, black cloth no jacket. Please email for photos.

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 57pp. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with a few small edge tears along the bottom edge tape mended. Virgil Thomson had asked the author to write an opera for him. This work was then orchestrated by Virgil Thomson during the summer of 1933.

Music Press, Arrow Music, 1948-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1/1000 regular copies, complete vocal score. Paper-bound with cloth spine, edges show wear, spine has name of opera in white, general age and soiling all around. Pen name on inside front cover. 144pp. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

New York: Random House, 1934. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 57pp. Fine/very good. Jacket mildly age toned and spine rather darkened, with small chip at spine head/tail. Handsome first edition of this work for which Virgil Thomson composed the score -- considered groundbreaking in every respect including its all-black cast. Front jacket panel struggles to describe Stein's writing, finally settling politely for "strange and baffling prose cadences [that] provide a challenge to reader and publisher alike...." Front flyleaf bears contemporary (dated 29 September 1934) nonauthorial gift inscription that quotes the opera's opening line ("To know to know to love her so") and another line from the first page ("A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover"). A superb, bright copy in far better than average jacket.

New York:: Music Press, Inc.,, [1948].. original printed flexible boards.. Former owner's small blind-embossed name stamp in the upper corner of the title page; clipped portrait of Stein and Thomson affixed opposite title page; very light use to boards.. Folio,. Scenario by Maurice Grosser. Complete vocal score.

New York: Random House, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed. [Thompson, Virgil] Stein, Gertrude. FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS: An Opera to be Sung [by American composer Virgil Thomson]. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Signed. New York: Random House, 1934. 8vo., 57pp., gilt lettered black cloth. Hardcover. First Edition. Wilson A21a. Stated "First Printing, February 1934". An essentially fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. A one page Virgil Thompson ALS, dated 29 April, 1968 on his letterhead tipped to the front pastedown. "Dear Nick / I never did find among my things a treble piece for you to publish though there may still be something there if I look hard when I go back to New York, May 15. I've been in residence here opening at Trinity College, and liking it. May 20th, I am going to Elizabeth, New Jersey to hear 4 Saint produced [believe it or not] by a 6th grade class. If it's not too late for your treble book, send me a postcard. I should love to be… Read More

New York: Random House, 1934. First Edition. Very good with slight wear to extremities in a poor dustwrapper with loss and separation.. First edition. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Stein on the flyleaf.

New York: Random House, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo, 57pp., black cloth; dj chipped, archivally repaired chips; inked name of Nancy Doss on front pastedown, some toning to endpapers from dust jacket. [Wilson A21a]. Full-page inscription by Gertrude Stein to O. J. Kedlec, a collector from Forest Park, Illinois. Stein's inscription repeats the title of this work, and she wrote it from Bilignin, par Belley, Ain, France."