Bibliography of Works by Gertrude Stein
Compiled by
Kimmo Sääskilahti
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Principal Publications
Three Lives
(1904-5)
The Grafton Press, New York, 1909
John Lane the Bodley Head, London,1915
The Modern Library, New York, 1933
Peter Owen, London, 1970
The Making of Americans (1906-8)
Contact Editions, Paris, 1925
Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1934 (abridged edition) Reissued 1966
Something Else Press, New York, 1966;
Peter Owen, London, 1969 (photo-copy of the original Contact Editions publication)
Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein
(1909-12)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1933
Tender Buttons
(1911)
Claire-Marie, New York, 1914
transition No. 14, 1928
See also
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Useful Knowledge
(1915)
Payson and Clarke, New York, 1928
John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1929
Geography and Plays
(1908-20)
The Four Seas Company, Boston, 1922 (Introduction by Sherwood Anderson)
Composition as Explanation
(1926)
The Hogarth Press, London, 1926
Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1928
See also
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
An Acquaintance with Description
(1926)
Seizin Press, London, 1929
Lucy Church Amiably
(1927)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1930
Something Else Press, New York, 1969
How To Write
(1928-30)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1931
Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded
(1930)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1931
Operas and Plays
(1913-30)
Plain Edition, Paris, 1932
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
(1932)
Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1933
John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1933
Random House, New York, 1936
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1967
See also
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
Portraits and Prayers
(1909-33)
Random House, New York, 1934
Lectures in America
(1934)
Random House, New York, 1935
Beacon Press, Boston, 1957 (paperback)
Narration
(1935)
University of Chicago Press, 1935 (Introduction by Thornton Wilder)
The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind
(1935)
Random House, New York, 1936 (Introduction by Thornton Wilder)
What are Master-pieces
(1922-36)
Conference Press, Los Angeles, 1940
Everybody's Autobiography
(1936)
Random House, New York, 1937
William Heinemann, London and Toronto, 1938
Picasso
(1938)
Librairie Floury, Paris, 1938 (French and English)
Batsford, London, 1938
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940
The World is Round
(1938)
William R. Scott, New York, 1939
Batsford, London, 1939
Paris France
(1939)
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940
Batsford, London, 1940
Ida, A Novel
(1940)
Random House, New York, 1941
Wars I Have Seen
(1942-4)
Random House, New York, 1944
Batsford, London, 1945
Brewsie and Willie
(1945)
Random House, New York, 1946
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
(1909-44)
Random House, New York, 1946 (edited with introduction and notes by Carl Van Vechten)
Posthumous Publications
Four In America
(1932-3)
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1947 (Introduction by Thornton Wilder)
The Gertrude Stein First Reader and Three Plays
(1941-3)
M. Fridberg, Dublin, I946
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, I948
Blood On The Dining-Room Floor
(1933)
Banyon Press, 1948
Virago Press, 1985
Last Operas and Plays
(1917 - 46)
Rinehart and Co., New York, I949
Things As They Are
(1903)
Banyan Press, Pawlett, Vermont, 1950
The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Works ofGertrude Stein - 8 Volumes
The Yale University Press New Haven
Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother
(1908-12)
, published 1951, foreword by Janet Flanner
Mrs Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes
(1931-42)
, published 1952, foreword by Lloyd Frankenberg
Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces
(1913-27)
, published 1953, introdution by Vergil Thomson
As Fine as Melanctha
(1914-30)
,published 1954, foreword by Clifford Barney
Painted Lace and Other Pieces
(1914-37)
, published 1955, introduction by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems
(1929-33)
, published 1956, preface by Donald Sutherland
Alphabets and Birthdays
(1915-40)
, published 1957, introduction by Donald Gallup
A Novel of Thank You
(1920-26)
, published 1958, introduction by Carl Van Vechten