Elucidation, An.
Stein, Gertrude. An Elucidation. Printed in transition. [Paris]: 1927.
8vo.; unopened; buff wrappers printed in black; stapled.
An addendum to the April 1927 issue of transition, this sixteen page pamphlet was specially prepared for their subscribers, lest they read the “garbled” text mangled by the printers on the inside of that issue instead. Wilson A10, commenting that in setting that issue, “the printers garbled the text, and at Miss Stein’s insistence, the magazine had the entire article reprinted as a separate pamphlet which was laid into subscribers’ copies” (Wilson, p. 129).
“An Elucidation” was the first of over a dozen appearances by Stein in Transition between 1927 and 1932, a career capped by their 1935 publication of another sixteen page pamphlet, also laid into copies issued only to subscribers. That one, titled “Testimony Against Gertrude Stein,” included several passages from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas along with refutations by Georges Braque, Eugene and Maria Jolas, Henri Matisse, André Salmon, and Tristan Tzara, “all of whom took umbrage at various passages in the book” (Wilson 168).
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