Tender Buttons

2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein''s groundbreaking modernist classic, Tender Buttons. This centennial edition is the first and only version to incorporate Stein''s own handwritten corrections—found in a first-edition copy at the University of Colorado—as well as corrections discovered among her papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Editor Seth Perlow has assembled a text with over one hundred emendations, resulting in the first version of Tender Buttons that truly reflects its author''s intentions. These changes are detailed in Perlow''s "Note on the Text," which describes the editorial process and lists the specific variants for the benefit of future scholars. The book includes facsimile images of some of Stein''s handwritt