TENDER BUTTONS: Objects - Food - Rooms
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Stein's third published book, it was issued in an edition of only 1000 copies by the audacious small publisher Claire Marie Press. Founded by Greenwich Village-based poet Donald Evans, the press "believes there are in America seven hundred civilized people only. Claire Marie publishes books for civilized people only. Claire Marie's aim, it follows from the premises, is not even secondarily commercial" (quoted in Souhami). Indeed, most American critics reacted with bafflement at best, but often outright hostility.
Nevertheless, Stein's commitment to push her Modernist impulses to the extreme abstraction of language was impactful not only on other Modernists, but foundational for the work of later Post-Modernists and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, for whom she was a "major precursor" (Hartley).
An important, unbreakable, unflinching jewel of Modernism. 7'' x 5''. Original yellow boards with printed green title label, green-lettered spine. Publisher's ad at rear. 78, [2] pages. Boards fairly soiled, with a bit of cracking to front joint (still firm), toned and somewhat edgeworn spine. Faint trace of dampstaining at upper edge of front endpapers. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down.
Synopsis
Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50721
- Title
- TENDER BUTTONS: Objects - Food - Rooms
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Claire Marie
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Woman Author,Modernism,Poetry,20th century,US American
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...