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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS

by GERTRUDE STEIN

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VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, 1960. Hardcover. Used; Very Good. 252pp. This is the record of almost 30 years of life in a changing Paris and elsewhere. blue boards with gilt and red lettering to spine, grey endpapers heavy library binding. not ex-library, clean tight and bright.

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'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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS
Author
GERTRUDE STEIN
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used; Very Good
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Publisher
VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE
Date Published
1960

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Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Library Binding
A type of reinforced binding designed for libraries, schools, or other applications where a book might experience high...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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