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Vintage Books. Used - Very Good.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 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],… Read More

Harcourt Brace, 1933. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. First edition. Covers shelfworn and faded along edges. Clipping of Toklas and Stein inside tanning the endpapers.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. 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.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. 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. . First Book Club Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. SIGNED by Gertrude Stein. Clean very good+ hard cover (third printing) with FAIR dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Very Good+. Hardcover. Third Printing. 1934.

NY: Harcourt Brace, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. 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.