"Wars I Have Seen" 1945 STEIN, Gertrude (SOLD) Furniture Together with a beautiful folding

Together with a beautiful folding illustration/ nine feet long specially drawn by Mister Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh

Major Jay Coogan of Gladstone

9 3/8" x 7"

Moscow (1964) and Torino '90 (1990)

Ian Balfour tells the fascinating stories of almost eighty of these remarkable gems

"Wars I Have Seen" 1945 STEIN, Gertrude (SOLD) Furniture Together with a beautiful foldingSTEIN, Gertrude [191] pp. B. T. Batsford 1945 VG VG Jacket design by Cecil Beaton In "Wars I Have Seen" (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no