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    • Author/Creator:Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
    • Title:The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Published/Created:New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [c1933]
    • Physical Description:vii, 310 p. front., plates, ports., facsim. 23 cm.
    • Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (Copy 1)
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    • Local Notes:BEIN Za St34 933A copy 1 has author's presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten and Carl Van Vechten's bookplate. Dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket of The Holliday Bookshop. First binding of silver blue cloth and white endsheets.
      BEIN Za St34 933A copy 2: Dust jacket. Third binding with dull blue cloth and grey endsheets.
      BEIN Za St34 933A copy 3: Author's presentation inscription to E. Perry and autograph of Alice B. Toklas. "Second printing, October 1933". Dust jacket. Second? binding of dull blue cloth with white endsheets.
      BEIN Za St34 933A copy 4: Autograph of W[illiam] C[arlos] Williams. Fairleigh Dickinson University Library call no. in ms. on verso of title leaf. From the library of William Carlos Williams.
    • Notes:The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Wilson, R.A. Gertrude Stein, A20
    • Subjects:Toklas, Alice B.
      Paris (France)--Intellectual life.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Presentation inscription to E. Perry.
      Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten.
      Toklas, Alice B.--Autograph.
      Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Bookplate.
      Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Presentation inscription from G. Stein.
      Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963--Autograph.
      Fairleigh Dickinson University. Library--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Booksellers' labels (Provenance)--Holliday Bookshop.