December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Lot #887:

Gertrude Stein's ''Lucy Church Amiably'' First Edition -- Scarce Book by the Author Who Coined the Term ''Lost Generation''

''Lucy Church Amiably: A Novel of Romantic Beauty and Nature and Which Looks Like an Engraving'' by Gertrude Stein. Paris: Imprimerie Union: 1930. First edition, measuring 5.5'' x 7.5'', runs 240pp. Slight wear to deep blue boards, and to edges of brown plain wrapper. Interior immaculate. A near fine copy of a rare work by Stein, confidant and muse for Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.