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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by Stein and Toklas on a laid-in postcard. Review Copy. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (no price), faded at the spine, generally worn with multiple tears, chips, and creases. Blue buckram, faded at the edges, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue topstain, clean internally. A nice review copy with the publisher's slip and a laid-in postcard/admission ticket from the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Stein delivered a lecture titled "Poetry and Grammar" at the club's meeting on February 13th, 1935.
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
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6840
- Title
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Author
- Stein, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Modern Literature, Literary Memoir, Gay, Lesbian, LGBT
Terms of Sale
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Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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