Ida by Gertrude Stein. 1941 Random House, first edition, 154 pages. A novel, er, text, about a woman famous for being famous, by the great "mother of modernism."

Condition: Acceptable/Good. About a nickel torn from front cover, more from the top of the back cover, wear and chips, boards browning, pencil notation on first chapter title page, spine square, pages otherwise clean.

"So Ida was born and a very little while after her parents went off on a trip and never came back. That was the first funny thing that happened to Ida."