The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine and edges toned, pencil name and date on front endpaper (Robert de San Marzano 1933). Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 310 pp. Blue cloth, silver titles. 16 photographic plates, including a frontispiece of Toklas from a photo taken by Man Ray. A biography of Alice B. Toklas by her life partner Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Toklas was a member of the avant-garde in Paris, and together with Stein maintained a salon that hosted such literary greats as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson, as well as important artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.