The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library)
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394604873
- ISBN 13
- 9780394604879
- Seller
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Modern Library, New York, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Rust coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles back strip and self embossed publisher's logo to the top right hand corner of the front front panel and back strip. Plain text dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This book is an account of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas' life together in Paris before, during and after World War II; with idiosyncratic glimpses of such people as Picasso, Matisse Cocteau and Apollinaire. Softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Some tanning to the top text edge. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with some Chipping to the top back strip edge. Sunning of the dustwrapper with very heavy sunning of the back strip. A little chipping to the top back strip edge. There are quite noticeable and heavy grubby marks. First Edition by This Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], 4 - 252 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; France; ISBN: 0394604873. ISBN/EAN: 9780394604879. Inventory No: 0290596. . 9780394604879
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
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0290596
- Title
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library)
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394604873
- ISBN 13
- 9780394604879
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Alice B. Toklas, Biography, France, Gertrude Stein, life Biography & Autobiography; France; Unbranded ISBN: 0394604873 EAN: 9780394604879 Stein, Gertrude The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library)
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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