The Autobiography Of Alice B Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alice B. Toklas. The book, an immediate bestseller, guaranteed them both a place in history. An account of their life together in Paris before, during, and after World War I, it is full of the atmosphere of the changing life of the city and of idiosyncratic glimpses of such figures as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and other luminaries and aspirants who were their close friends. But at the center of the narrative there is always the titanic figure of Gertrude Stein, the self-proclaimed 'first-class genius' who some dismissed as the 'Mother Goose of Montparnasse,' presiding over her celebrated residence-salon-art gallery at 27, rue de Fleurus. William Troy remarked about her: 'It is not flippant to say that if she had not come to exist . . . it would be necessary to invent Miss Gertrude Stein.'
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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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A Very Good copy of the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas written by Gertrude Stein
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Born in San Francisco Alice B. Toklas is an indelible figure in modern cultural history. Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein; Alice B. Toklas
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- 1933
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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. Item Price
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS [Signed by Stein and Toklas]
by Stein, Gertrude
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- 1933
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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 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.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
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- 1933
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in a fantastic example of the dust jacket, which is typically found much worse for wear. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with toning to spine of book and jacket, toning to pages and light dust soiling. A wonderful copy.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude. (Alice B. Toklas)
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- 1933
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Salisbury, Connecticut, USA
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
by Stein, Gertrude
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Inscribed by Gertrude Stein on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
by Stein, Gertrude
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Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933. First edition of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition. Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
by Stein, Gertrude
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas' conversational style, and while this is true the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by STEIN, Gertrude
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- 1933
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Glendale, California, USA
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
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- 1966
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Galway, IRL
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London : Penguin Books, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Penguin Modern Classics ; 2531. Physical description: 272 pages ; 20cm. Subjects: Toklas, Alice B. (Alice Babette) (1877-1967) -- Biography. Women authors, American -- 20th century --… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by STEIN, GERTRUDE
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- Used - First English Edition. Foxed; very good. Inscribed by the author, “For Miss Drury [?], with a good deal of pleasure. Gertrude
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- 1933
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Newton, Massachusetts, USA
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London: John Lane/ Bodley Head, 1933. First English Edition. Foxed; very good. Inscribed by the author, “For Miss Drury [?], with a good deal of pleasure. Gertrude Stein.” Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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- 1966
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Penguin Books, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. First Edition Thus. 272 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Modern Library Paperback series, #P12)
by STEIN, Gertrude
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- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
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- [c.1955]
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- Softcover
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- 9780679783305
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Littleton, Colorado, USA
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c.1955]. Softcover. 067978330X . Gertrude Stein's memoir is written in the guise of an autobiography by her life-partner, Alice B. Toklas. The two shared a salon in Paris for many years, hosting famous authors and avant-garde painters. Presented in a scarce Modern Library… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
by Stein, Gertrude
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- 1933
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Scotia, New York, USA
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1933 Harcourt Brace stated first edition
Condition of the book is Very Good Minus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The book shows light wear from age and storage
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
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- Mass Market Paperback
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- 9780394701332
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Vintage Books. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good condition paperback. Spine is cocked and creased. Signs of bumping and general shelfwear. Binding is loose in some places but still intact. 252pp. Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
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- 1961
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1961. Paperback. 252p., very good mass-market paperback reprint edition in pictorial wraps. A Vintage Book V-133. Item Price
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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
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- 9781594204609
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Penguin. Used - Like New. Near fine. Cloth, D-j. 2020. May contain remainder mark. Originally published at $30. Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Stein, Gertrude
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- Reprint
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- 1961
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- Mass Market Paperback
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- 9780394701332
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Vashon, Washington, USA
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New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1961. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Mass Market Paperback. Light shelfwear. Item Price
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The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas
by GERTRUDE STEIN.
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- Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1933
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- Hardcover
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London, GBR
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John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
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