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First Printing. A Very Good or better copy in medium silvery-grey cloth stamped in silver, dark top stain, in a Good dustwrapper, fading to spine panel, light wear to spine-ends, with one quarter inch chip from heel. 310pp. with photographic illustrations. "A Rose Is a Rose is a Rose" in round on the front cover. This copy is INSCRIBED by Stein on the free front endpaper "for [_____ _____] Gertrude Stein January 12 193?". The inscribee (in Stein's hand) is indecipherable. Inscribed copies by Stein are uncommon since she lived in France. Scarce. Q20940.

About The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

An autobiography written by Gertrude Stein using the voice of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, recounting their lives together in Paris.