8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth. In unrestored dust jacket (some soiling and spotting, a few short tears, corners clipped). Provenance: George Marion O'Donnell (signature, letter tipped in, see below).

FIRST EDITION. Four Saints in Three Acts was adapted as an opera in 1928, composed by Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Stein. 

WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY GERTRUDE STEIN TIPPED IN, to Marion O'Donnell, 17 August 1933, Belley, Ain, France, with original addressed envelope. Sending a poem entitled "Page IX": "I like a half a day in one day / Or a whole day in some day / Or three days in Friday / Or six days in Tuesday / Or forty days and forty-nights in Wednesday." George Marion O'Donnell (1914-1962) was an American Agrarian School author and poet, and was an editor associated with the southern New Critics.