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(Florence): n.p., 1912. Very good.. Inscribed association copy of the first edition of Stein's second - and rarest - book, presented by Stein to fellow Modernist Alvin Langdon Coburn. One of Stein's earliest writing experiments was her prose "portraits," attempting to capture the essence of her sitters just as her painter friends, like Picasso, did. Her portrait of Mabel Dodge (later Luhan) was a major step in building her style towards a cubistic mode of writing, adapting the epiphanies of visual Modernism to the written word. As Stein once said of this portrait, "Well, Pablo is doing abstract paintings in painting. I am trying to abstract portraits in my medium, words" (quoted in Rudnick, 47.) The occasion of the portrait and its private printing began with Stein and Toklas's visit to Dodge's Villa Curonia near Florence. Dodge was an American heiress, bisexual, and patron of the arts who led a bold, forward-thinking, somewhat unhinged life (which was also the basis for Rachel Cusk's novel SECOND… Read More