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Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st. UK edition, John Lane at The Bodley Head, London, 1933. Cloth, viii, 268pp. 16 b/w plates, covers slightly discoloured, one plate loose, otherwise a god copy in poor, repaired and partly lacking d.w. The life and times of two extraordinary women. On the top cover is printed: rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. This is always misquoted as: a rose is a rose etc. £45.00
Seller: Janet Clarke Books ABA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$98.54 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Pale yellow-brown cloth lettered in blue.- No dust jacket. GOOD (cover worn - not so good) [MI-15]
Seller: Librairie Pique-Puces, Belfort, France
GERTRUDE STEIN.. The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1933.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition (first printing), published a month after the considerably more common US edition. Royal 8vo. 268pp. Brown cloth lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. With a photographic frontispiece and sixteen captioned black and white photographs, and art and manuscript reproductions (some of these illustrations differing from those present in the US edition). The cloth very slightly soiled, with a trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the top edge dust marked. Free endpapers fractionally toned. Some quite light spotting to half a dozen preliminary leaves. Former owner name plate to the front pastedown. A very good copy in good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, quite toned at the spine panel, nicked with several tiny fractions of edge-loss, and with a little marking and dust soiling. Wilson A20e.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$413.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first printing of the first British edition; 268 pp., frontis., plates; original cream colored cloth (hardcover), book plate to the front paste down, spine and margins of the covers darkened, very small soil spot to the fore edge of the front cover and for edge of the text, small tape residue to the paste downs, else very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1933.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks (unsigned). Bookplate and autograph by former owner Annie Landau. Landau (20 March 1873 - 23 January 1945) headed the Evelina de Rothschild School in Jerusalem from 1899 until her death in 1945. She received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from King George VI in 1924 in recognition of her service. As an educator in Jerusalem at the beginning of the twentieth century, Annie Edith Landau established new standards both in educational methods and in the cultural, ethical, and health arenas, while at the same time setting an example of polite and civilized behavior. She is the Aunt of Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Light shelf wear/rubbing to extremities, toning and chipping to dj, sunning to spine, smudging, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Tan cloth with blue printed titles on dj. 8vo. 267pp. illus (b/w). Former owner autograph on ffep and bookplate present on fep. With a photographic frontispiece and sixteen captioned black and white photographs, and art and manuscript reproductions.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
STEIN, GERTRUDE.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. London: John Lane/ Bodley Head, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Foxed; very good. Inscribed by the author, 'For Miss Drury [?], with a good deal of pleasure. Gertrude Stein.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
[STEIN, Gertrude].. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.. John Lane, London, 1933.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: 268 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First British edition. Light waterstain to the bottom inch of the spine, extending slightly onto the front panel; otherwise a very good copy. The jacket shows a lighter stain in the same area, and the rear joint has split and been repaired. Still quite an attractive copy, and very uncommon with an inscription by Stein. Inscribed by Gertrude Stein to Paul Moser on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.