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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.
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.
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.