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# THE MAKING OF
AMERICANS

Being the History of a Family's Progress

By

GERTRUDE STEIN

This great work, whose publication has been impatiently
awaited, will appear in the Autumn of 1925. Contrary to our
original announcement, it will be printed in ONE quarto volume
of about 1000 pages. The edition, subscriptions for which are
now being taken, will be limited to 305 copies, as follows :

300 on simili-Japan, thin but opaque and durable.

Prices. — In paper covers : America § 8; England 33 s. ; France 150 fr.
In half leather: America § 10; England 2 gns. ; France 190 fr.

5 on Imperial Japan, autographed by the author, bound in full
vellum.

Prices. — America § 60; England 12 gns. ; France 1100 fr.

(In view of fluctuating exchange, these prices cannot be
indefinitely guaranteed.)

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GERTRUDE STEIN

(some extracts from critiques)

CARL VAN VECHTEN in the New York Tribune. — *Gertrude Stein is not only the founder of the modern movement in English literature; she is also at the present time far ahead of her boldest followers. Melanchtha... one of the finest stories in the English language.*

EDMUND WILSON in *Vanity Fair*. — We figure her as the great pyramidal Buddha... ruminating eternally on the ebb and flood of life, registering impressions like some august seismograph.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON in *The New Republic*. — As an American writer I admire her because she... represents something sweet and healthy in our American life, and because I have an undying faith that what she is up to in her word-kitchen in Paris is of more importance to writers of English than the work of many of our more easily understood and more widely accepted artists.

EDITH SITWELL in *Vogue*. — *Miss Stein is among the most important writers of her time. Gertrude Stein's style is strange, wild, fly-away. Her words are like singing birds flying down upon a branch for a moment. Miss Stein has given us the unknown — new life struggling into being from dead stones.*

SUBSCRIPTION

Contact Editions, 29, Quai d'Anjou, Paris :

Please enter my subscription for one copy of Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans", as indicated :

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