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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 to heads of half-title and verso of front free end-paper and one spot on title-page. spine lightly faded and original price abraded on the front flap. Binding is firm. A Fine copy in a very good wrapper which is in better condition than it usually surfaces. First edition of Stein's mischievous "memoir of that exciting period when Cubism was being invented in paint and a new manner of writing was being patented in words" (Janet Flanner), with frontispiece after a photograph by Man Ray and 14 full-page illustrations, in scarce original dust jacket.

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