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Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace & Co., c.1933,, 1933.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Harcourt, Brace & Co., NY, c.1933, 1st.,8vo., cloth, 311pp., photos., water-speckled covers, fair, $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
Toklas, Alice B. [Gertrude Stein]. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, 1933.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated First Edition, but copyright held by Harcourt, Brace, thus, a First Edition Thus exemplar. Photograph of the subject, I mean, object of this autobiography, I mean, fictitious biography by Alice B. Toklas, I mean, Gertrude Stein, by Man Ray, at frontis, in black-and-white. Fifteen additional black-and-white photographs augment this fine exemplar. The final plate is a facsimile of the first page of the original manuscript, "Chapter 1, 'Before I came to Paris: I was born in San Francisco, California . . . '." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to, soiling of extremities. Page edges lightly sunned, silver lettering to front cover and spine lightly rubbed. The book was written in October and November of 1932, says Gertrude Stein in her memoirs, and lavishes due praise of and insight about and her life partner. vii [1], 2-310 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Toklas, Alice B.. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS.. Harcourt, Brace and Company:, 1933.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition is stated, 310 pages, illustrated in b&w. VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, Light wear to edges of covers, letterng is bright on the spine, though spine has darkened some.Some soiling of cloth, internally a nice clean tight copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$38.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: NY: Harcourt Brace 1933. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 311 pgs. Blue cloth with silver gilt. B/w frontis and plates. Good book with no dust jacket. Spine and top edge of covers toned. Spine ends and 1 corner lightly bumped. Light foxing spots to first few pgs. Contents clean and binding sound but interior has a musty odor. (history, lgbt, lgbt history, queer history, lesbian, biography) Inquire if you need further information.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Alice B. Toklas; Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt Brace, 1933.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Covers shelfworn and faded along edges. Clipping of Toklas and Stein inside tanning the endpapers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, has a light lean to binding, slight bumps to spine ends, very light sunning to spine and top edge of text block near binding, a touch of shelfwear to board edges and corners, a very brief pencil note from a previous owner to first free endpage, and a cut out image of Gertrude Stein by G. P. Lynes is taped to front pastedown along the top edge, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 310 pages. Stein writing as her longtime partner Toklas. Illustrated with a number of black and white photogaphs. An about very good copy in light blue cloth boards with a small tear to the top of the spine, some other minor wear to the bottom of the spine and corners. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Corners, head and base of spine tiny tears and fray. Otherwise this book is clean and unmarked in very good condition. First edition. 310 pages.
Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.. The Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Originally published in the trade edition by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., this is the club reprint issue, from the Harcourt sheets. A Fine copy in jet black cloth, lower points a trifle rubbed, in a Very Good tan, silver and black dustwrapper, spine slightly toned with some wear to spine-ends. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 310pp. Q14650
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First edition. Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually by her friend and lover Gertrude Stein. It recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. Listed by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp. Good plus condition - some toning to the covers, but the print on the spine and the "A rose is a rose is a rose" circle on the front cover are quite legible, a bit of fraying to the top of the spine and toning to the pages. Hinges are intact, book is straight and tight. No dust jacket.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover first edition - First edition. First printing. Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually written by her friend and partner Gertrude Stein. The book recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. This book was included by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp. Good plus condition. Some toning to the covers. Print on the spine and the "A rose is a rose is a rose" circle on the front cover is bright. Slight fraying to the top of the spine and toning to the pages. Front hinge loose. No dust jacket. Former owner's signature on front end paper in fountain pen.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1933.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue-gray cloth, lettered in silver foil. Stated 1st edition. Cover cloth shows mottled brown foxing, spine panel tanned to medium brown, otherwise slight wear with slight bump to bottom front corner. Former owner H. W. Anderson's signature at top corner of front pastedown, dated 7 Sept. 1933, NYC. vii,311 pp. Firm binding, clean interior. Supplied with brand-new facsimile dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.68 + shipping
Description: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. 8°. VII, 310 Seiten, 2 Bl. - With 16 Photographs. Frontispiz by Man Ray. OLeinen. "WE ARE WELLKNOWN FOR BOOKS ONLY IN BEST CONDITION!" WIR SIND BEKANNT FÜR SOLIDESTE VERPACKUNG! Erste Ausgabe. - Einband leicht angestaubt und berieben, Exlibris auf Vorsatz, innen gutes Exemplar. First edition. Exlibris on fly leaf. No d/j. Publisher's cloth. Very good copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1933.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition. Lacks DJ. Boards have some fading, as does the spine. Good. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. NO markings to text. Diagonal cut to top left corner of ffep. Sunning to ffep as well. Deckled pages. Scuffing to bottom page edge. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
[Stein, Gertrude]. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1933.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, gray endsheets. Frontis and plates. Small private ownership stamp on front free endsheet, trace of tanning to stock, otherwise near fine, in fair, heavily worn, chipped, split and tanned dust jacket, with the original price intact on the front flap. First edition in book form, third binding. A total of 5400 copies constituted the entire edition, in three separate binding lots. WILSON A20c.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$417.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "first edition" stated. Bound in blue-gray cloth with "A rose is a rose is a rose is" stamped to form a small circle to front board. "Good-plus" dust jacket chipped to corners, moderately sun-faded to spine. Previous owner's name "Mary Block" to top of otherwise blank FFE. Whether this is the Mary Lasker Block (1905-1981) who with her husband Leigh Block (formerly of the Inland Steel Co.) was active on the board of the Chicago Art Institute from the 1950s through the 1970s, we do not know. 311 pp. Reduced from $1,200.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "first edition" stated. Bound in blue-gray cloth with "A rose is a rose is a rose is" stamped to form a small circle to front board. Internal hinges have been competently repaired. Darkened bookstore label of Books, Inc., Sutter St., San Francisco to bottom of rear pastedown. The "fair" dust jacket is seriously darkened to spine (which is missing 3/8ths-inch or more to its top and bottom); jacket is also missing a 3-inch triangle to bottom right of front panel. 311 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$505.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "first edition" stated. Bound in blue-gray cloth with "A rose is a rose is a rose is" stamped to form a small circle to front board. All orange coloring has faded from spine of this "fair-to-good-plus" dust jacket (though most of said orange remains to front panel.) Jacket is missing the top 1/4 inch (7 mm.) of its spine and shows a 1-1/2-inch-square dampstain / tidemark to top corner of rear panel where said jacket rear panel meets the spine. Jacket rear flap shows a similar dampstain / tidemark to top corner. Previous owner Eugenie Gifford has dated September 18, 1933 and signed to the blank recto of the frontispiece photo. (Signed by previous owner, not by author or subject.) 311 pp. Reduced from $645.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace, and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$664.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1933 First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. DJ. Dust jacket in fair to poor condition- see photos. Interior has flaws. Both boards stained. Dampstaining to page edges. Rust from paper clip affecting endpapers. Binding starting to crack. Press clippings, pertinent info about Gertrude Stein included. Contents intact. 310p.
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven blue-gray cloth with Stein's circular quote "A rose is a rose" stamped on the front boards in silver; with bright silver lettering stamped on the spine which has some light flecking scattered along it. Top edges stained gray; fore-edges untrimmed. Very clean and tight throughout; slight spine slant. Illustrated with 16 photographs (all present), including the frontispiece by Man Ray. With a touch of wear to the extremities; bottom corner of the front boards lightly bumped. Touch of shelfwear to the bottom edges. In a very good plus original dust jacket with a black and white photograph of Alice Toklas entering Gertrude's study on the front panel. With comments by Van Vechten, Lee Simonson, and a Lady from Boston cited on the rear panel. All corners clipped as usual. However, There is no price at the center bottom of the front panel, normally $3.50 under the slug: Illustrated from photographs. This indicates a later state jacket. An attractive copy overall. Gertrude Stein (1874 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved toParis in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis,Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.[2] Two quotes from her works have become widely known: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,"[3] and "there is no there there", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland. Her books include Q.E.D. (1903), about a lesbian romantic affair involving several of Stein's friends, Fernhurst, a fictional story about a love triangle,Three Lives (1905 06), and The Making of Americans (1902 1911). In Tender Buttons (1914), Stein commented on lesbian sexuality.[4] Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain. Some have argued that certain accounts of Stein's wartime activities have amounted to a "witch hunt". (Wikipedia) First edition with 1933 copyright date and the statement "First Edition" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
STEIN, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. vii, 311. Frontis. black & white photograph of Toklas and Stein by Man Ray. Illustrated with black & white photographs and one manuscript facsimile. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Blue-gray publisher's cloth binding, Stein's circular device on cover and spine lettering stamped in silver. Top edge dyed gray, others untrimmed. Corners mildly bumped and spine ends just a touch worn. Free-endpapers lightly toned by dust jacket flaps. In the illustrated dust jacket, unclipped, spine sunned, corners and ends chipped. Back flap advertisement for Flush A Biography, by Virginia Woolf. Not just a first-person account of the milieu and emergence of modern painting in early 20th C. Paris delivered with understated amusement, but a modern masterpiece in itself. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition. "Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932, using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose. than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded" (Donald Sutherland). âNot only did the memoir make Toklasâs name famous, but it established a postmodernist rationale for autobiographical sophistication. Never intended to be factual, Steinâs story of life in Paris from 1900 through 1930 was told in Toklasâs wryly humorous voice. The genius of Steinâs ear for language allowed her to leave her own convoluted, hermetic style and write with the clarity and acerbity that Toklas was famous for among her friends. So accurate was Steinâs re-creation of Toklasâs speech that some readers were sure Toklas herself had written the bookâ (ANB). It was listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. (Alice B. Toklas). The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1933.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, inscribed by Gertrude Stein and signed, too, by Alice B. Toklas. Copies signed by the pair are highly uncommon. Stein has inscribed the book on the free front endpaper to Dr. (indecipherable), then below her signature is Toklas's in shaky hand. Lacking the dustjacket (though a facsimile is supplied). In publisher's bluish gray cloth, stamped in silver with a shallow loss at the crown of spine with two short tears, and a small abrasion to the cloth on the top edge near the middle of the front cover. Paper over front hinge has evidence of repair, and the free front endpaper is split along hinge for its bottom half. There is a bookplate, without a name, in the Art-Deco style on the front pastedown.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Handsomely bound in finely woven blue-gray cloth with Stein's circular quote "A rose is a rose" stamped on the front boards in silver; with bright silver lettering stamped on the spine which is very clean and bright. Top edges stained gray; fore-edges untrimmed. Very clean and tight throughout with a discrete name in ink and "Christmas, 1933" on the front endpaper. Illustrated with 16 photographs (all present), including the frontispiece by Man Ray. With a touch of wear to the extremities; bottom corner of the front boards lightly bumped. Note: with 2 dust jackets: #1) A very good plus original dust jacket with a black and white photograph of Alice Toklas entering Gertrudes study on the front panel. With comments by Van Vechten, Lee Simonson, and a Lady from Boston cited on the rear panel. All corners clipped as usual. An attractive copy. Dust jacket #2) This jacket has the original price of $3.50 near the bottom of the front flap. A good minus original dust jacket with a black and white photograph of Alice Toklas entering Gertrudes study on the front panel. Separated along the rear fold and missing 1.5" x 1.5" piece at the bottom of the spine. Chipping and wear along the front fold edges and along the bottom of the front panel. With comments by Van Vechten, Lee Simonson, and a Lady from Boston cited on the rear panel. All corners clipped as usual. However, the original price of $3.50 is printed beneath the "Ilustrated from photographs" slug at the bottom of the front panel. In addition there is a Review Slip from the Random House publication of Everybody's Autobiography, the sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The review slip is dated December 2nd (1937) "price $3.00": "This is, in effect, a continjuation of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Since the book appeared Miss Stein has had five years of exciting expriences in France, England and America." Along with the review slip is a glossy black and white photo of Gertrude & Alice alighting from an airplane (United Air). Perhaps a unique grouping. Gertrude Stein (1874 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved toParis in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis,Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.[2] Two quotes from her works have become widely known: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,"[3] and "there is no there there", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland. Her books include Q.E.D. (1903), about a lesbian romantic affair involving several of Stein's friends, Fernhurst, a fictional story about a love triangle,Three Lives (190506), and The Making of Americans (19021911). In Tender Buttons (1914), Stein commented on lesbian sexuality.[4] Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain. Some have argued that certain accounts of Stein's wartime activities have amounted to a "witch hunt". (Wikipedia) First edition with 1933 copyright date and the statement "First Edition" on the copyri
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
TOKLAS Alice B STEIN Gertrude. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. , 1933.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: "(STEIN, Gertrude). The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $3000.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.Stein "was at the cultural heart of Paris for more than four decades. She provided vital patronage for Matisse and Picasso and the Saturday evening gatherings where she played hostess to those in the know have become legendary Written in the form of an autobiography of Stein's life partner, the book is in actual fact her own memoir. But given the cast of characters, which range from Matisse, Picasso and Braque to Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound, it has proved a lasting tribute to a uniquely vibrant and creative era Its enduring appeal and the importance of Stein herself is perhaps best summed up by the U.S. journalist Janet Flanner, who described it as 'a complete memoir of that exciting period when Cubism was being invented in paint and a new manner of writing being patented in words" (BBC). To literary critic Donald Sutherland, Autobiography "is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded." 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. Small bookseller ticket.Book fine; light edge-wear to very scarce near-fine dust jacket."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3767.68 + shipping
Description: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Comp., 1933. 8°. VII, 1 Bl., 310 Seiten, 1 Bl. Mit 16 Tafeln. OLeinen mit OUmschlag Erste Ausgabe. Auf dem Vorsatz der eigenhändige Eintrag "Gertrude Stein / November 30 / 34 / Chicago". - Beiliegend: Toklas, Alice B., L.A.S. Paris VIII 1959, 1/2 Seite 8°. Mit gedruckter Adresse am Briefkopf. - An eine Miss Sherrill, die um Erlaubnis, zitieren zu dürfen angefragt hatte und die Alice Toklas an andere Personen, u.a. Carl van Vechten (G. Steins Nachlassverwalter) verweist. Außerdem entschuldigt sie sich für die verzögerte Antwort, bedingt durch ihre Abwesenheit von Paris. - Etwas zittrige Altersschrift. The book is signed on the fly leave by Stein "Gertrude Stein/November 30 / 34 / Chicago". - Enclosed: a handwritten-letter by Stein to Miss Sherrill with printed letter-head. Dustjacket with some signs of use (edges rubbed and some margin tears), otherwise a near fine copy. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Inscribed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are uncommon. Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932.using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas' conversational style, and while this is true the style is still a variant of Miss Stein's conversation style. .She usually insisted that writing is an entirely different thing from talking, and it is part of the miracle of this little scheme of objectification that she could by way of imitating Miss Toklas put in writing something of her own beautiful conversation. So that, aside from making a real present of her past, she created a figure of herself, established an identity a twin, a Doppelganger. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose. than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded" (Donald Sutherland). It was listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in a fantastic example of the dust jacket, which is typically found much worse for wear. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with toning to spine of book and jacket, toning to pages and light dust soiling. A wonderful copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933.
Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Gertrude Steinâs most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription, "For Amelia Henry Reinhardt, .it was in Oakland which is not near San Fernando and not at Pleasant Hill Gertrude Stein." The recipient, Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt, was an American educator, activist, and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She was active in numerous local, national, and international organizations, lecturing and writing on topics including international cooperation, suffrage, and women's rights and was appointed president of Mills College in Oakland, California (the second oldest women's college on the West Coast) and the American Association of University Women. In near fine condition. With Reinhardt's bookplate to the pastedown featuring a portrait of Dante. Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932.using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas' conversational style, and while this is true the style is still a variant of Miss Stein's conversation style. .She usually insisted that writing is an entirely different thing from talking, and it is part of the miracle of this little scheme of objectification that she could by way of imitating Miss Toklas put in writing something of her own beautiful conversation. So that, aside from making a real present of her past, she created a figure of herself, established an identity a twin, a Doppelganger. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose. than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded" (Donald Sutherland). It was listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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