TO BOBCHEN HAAS A VILLAGE ARE YOU READY YET NOT YET.
Bethel, CT: [The Warren Press, 1956]. Small stiff cardstock (14 x 11 cm). First edition, second state, without the objectionable ornament on the verso. The first state was "suppressed." Copies of this printing were distributed gratis. Very near fine, though wanting the plain envelope in which copies occasionally occur. The verso of the card states, "A previously unpublished portrait of Robert Bartlett Haas by Gertrude Stein / Paris, 1938 / Printed for the Addison M. Metcalf Collection of Gertrude Steiniana by the Warren Press, Bethel, Connecticut. / Copyright Alice B. Toklas, 1956."
Robert Bartlett Haas (Bobchen), spent years immersed in the writings of Gertrude Stein. Haas’ interest in Stein dated to his years as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. They started corresponding and finally met in 1946, shortly before her death in France at age 72. Haas was reportedly one of the young men who sought out Gertrude Stein as a mentor and was rewarded with years of encouragement and friendship and who, in turn, devoted a measure of his academic life to bolstering Stein’s reputation. He maintained a copious correspondence with Stein’s partner, Alice B. Toklas for many years after Stein’s death. Near fine. Item #786
WILSON & UPHILL A58b.
Price: $30.00