The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by STEIN, Gertrude
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing: with "First Edition" on the copyright page. Containing frontispiece showing Gertrude Stein at her desk and Toklas in the doorway, after a photograph by Man Ray, along with 14 full-page photographic illustrations and a facsimile page. Bookplates to front paste-down and verso of front free end-paper. Bits of soil to heads of half-title and verso of front free end-paper and one spot on title-page. spine lightly faded and original price abraded on the front flap. Binding is firm. A Fine copy in a very good wrapper which is in better condition than it usually surfaces. First edition of Stein's mischievous "memoir of that exciting period when Cubism was being invented in paint and a new manner of writing was being patented in words" (Janet Flanner), with frontispiece after a photograph by Man Ray and 14 full-page illustrations, in scarce original dust jacket.
Synopsis
'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas. The book, an immediate bestseller, guaranteed them both a place in history. An account of their life together in Paris before, during, and after World War I, it is full of the atmosphere of the changing life of the city and of idiosyncratic glimpses of such figures as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and other luminaries and aspirants who were their close friends. But at the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed 'first-class genius' who some dismissed as the 'Mother Goose of Montparnasse,' presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus. William Troy remarked about her: 'It is not flippant to say that if she had not come to exist . . . it would be necessary to invent Miss Gertrude Stein.'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 345
- Title
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Author
- STEIN, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's Cloth & Dustwrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company,
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- FALL 2024;
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