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STEIN, GERTRUDE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS. MODERN LIBRARY PAPERBACK, NY, 1933.
Price: US$6.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PUB. IN THE EARLY 1960'S.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 311 pp.
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: covers have very heavy wear and chipping, numerous edge tears and small pieces missing, pencil writing on front, binding tight, pages unmarked, 28 pages of ads + 128 pages of articles, monthly literary magazine that includes "The War and Gertrude Stein" by Gertrude Stein from "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. III" Size: 6.5 x 9.5
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, 1933.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original black cloth stamped in silver (spine faded vii, [1], 310 pages + plates. Reprint issue of the famous 'autobiography', with Stein's views of Paris, the First World War, etc. Notable for the many portrait studies (including the frontispiece reproduction of Man Ray's portrait of Toklas in the doorway). Wilson A20d; one of an unspecified number of copies, published in August of 1933.16 b/w Illustrations / Plates (chiefly Portrait photographs).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Toklas, Alice B.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in chipped and rubbed jacket, a few pencil markings in text, else good.
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Toklas, Alice B.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 310pp. Black Cloth, silver lettering on the spine. tape ghosts on the endpapers. Copy of the publication Wings, Volume 7 Number 9 , September 1933, with relevant material about Gertrude Stein has been taped onto the rear endpaper. Unclipped gray jacket has tattered spine edges. This is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933. It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998., Size: Octavo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, 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.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Literary Guild, c.1933,, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Literary Guild, NY, c.1933, 8vo., cloth, 311pp., G/G $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS. The Literary Guild, NEW YORK, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: High quality reprint, identical to the first edition, in black cloth (with only a touch of scuffing), lettered in silver gilt. With owner's bookplate, else about fine. Illustrated with photos of Gertrude Stein, etc. A crisp, clean, terrific copy.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, 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.
Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, 1933.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. COLLECTIBLE G - Stated first edition. Missing dj with some chipping/smudging to boards, otherwise good; no dj, some wear, still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Literary Guild, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Guild selection for September 1933. Covers shelfworn. Dust jacket shelfworn and chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, 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$99.31 + 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
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.
Toklas, Alice B.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. Despite its title, the "autobiography" was written by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and is a resource for the avant-garde literary scene. It had a mixed reaction from friends and critics, but was a best-seller. It was published by both Harcourt and the Literary Guild in 1933. Although the Literary Guild was a book-club, this edition has stated "first edition" on the copyright page. Technically, it is not a reprint, but is a separate edition issued in a different binding and dustjacket. This is a Near Fine copy. Black cloth binding with titling in silver on the spine. On the front cover there is a circular printing of Stein's famous line, "A rose is a rose is a rose." Clean text; frontis photograph by Man Ray; fifteen others within. Contemporary [ "September 1932"] signature by a previous owne. Mild push to corners; else a Fine copy, lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine, top edge lightly dusted, in a Very Good Plus Art Deco dust jacket, light edge wear, spine slight darkening. Illustrated in black and white; frontispiece by Man Ray. A handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, 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.
Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Literary Guild, New York, 1933.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The only real defect is an attractive former owner bookplate tipped in on the front free endpaper--visible in photo of listing on Abebooks.com. First edition stated on copyright page and visible in photo. The entire text looks as new.
Seller: Dela Duende Books, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$372.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, April 29 (sale item)* 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.
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.
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.
Toklas, Alice B.. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. THE LITERARY GUILD, NY, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: General wear: small bookplate, foxing This edition is potentially signed by Gertrude Stein on white tape on the title page according to a glued in letter signed by Alice B. Toklas B&W portraits, photos and paintings DATE PUBLISHED: 1933 EDITION: FIRST ED 311
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, 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.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 310 pages. In Good minus condition with no dust jacket. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver titling to spine. Spine cocked, moderate staining and rubbing to boards, bumping to corners. News articles pasted to front pastedown and recto of front free end paper regarding Stein's opera. Two news articles by Bob Fleming appear on verso of front free end paper and verso of half-title: Dec 6, 1934 "Gertrude Stein Brands Her Critics As Feeble-Minded" and Dec 7, 1934 "Gertrude Stein Tells All, But Controversy Lingers on Here". All newspaper clippings causing acid-staining, including to the inscription. Fleming's bookplate appears on the front free end paper. Half-title inscribed by Gertrude Stein, with addition signature of Alice B. Toklas: "For Bob Fleming, who not only almost understood, but he will perhaps change almost into something else. With pleasant, most pleasant remembrances". Typed transcription pasted above inscription. With original photograph of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas loose within, stamped on rear, presumed taken in Madison, Wisconsin during her visit. MM Consignment. Shelved in Case 5. Stein gave two lectures in Madison, Wisconsin on December 6, 1934, accompanied by Alice B. Toklas. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933 by Gertrude Stein. It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. Robert H. Fleming spent 35 years as a newspaper, radio and television reporter before joining the White House staff in 1966 and became deputy press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and chief of the ABC News Washington bureau. He was one of four network correspondents who participated in the first of the 1960 radio-television debates between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. 1351649. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, 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.
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.