Three Lives Stein, Gertrude Modern Library,Fiction,Literature

16mo 279pp. from front flap: "Three Lives was Miss Stein's first published book (1909), written not long after she settled in France. It is a little masterpiece, to be compared to Flaubert's Trois Contes, from which it somewhat derives; and its style and method influenced a whole generation of American writers. As The Saturday Review once said, "Three Lives stands as a massive doorpost in the entrance to the latest and best in American literature." #02391. Book VG: age/shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to endpapers, writing FFEP, text clean, binding tight DJ Fair: age toning/soil, spine sunned, chipping with loss, heavy edge wear, NOT clipped.