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Book Text Copyright © 1939, renewed 1966 by Gertrude Stein
Illustration Copyright © 1939, renewed 1966 by Clement Hurd
Foreword Copyright © 2013 by John Thacher Hurd
Afterword Copyright © 1986 by The Arion Press
Letter (March 25, 1940) to Gertrude Stein from John
McCullough © 2013 The Estate of John McCullough
The essay “The World Is Not Flat” is from The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein, with pictures by Clement Hurd, and with a companion volume, The World Is Not Flat, by Edith Thacher Hurd, published by the Arion Press, San Francisco, in a limited edition in 1986.
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