- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ballard Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Ballard Books
AbeBooks seller since November 13, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 934.26
Quantity: 1 available
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[SIGNED BY GERTRUDE STEIN] 8vo. vii, 310pp. Black publisher's cloth binding. Spine slightly faded and worn with title and 'literary guild' and small circular 'A Rose Is A Rose' design in silver on lower right front cover. Blueish gray endpapers, Pseudo-deckeled fore- and lower- edges. Slight discoloration on lower left of front cover. Water stain on top edge, but only minimally intruding into text and not visible on most pages. Inscribed and signed by Gertrude Stein on front free endpaper. (dedicated to 'Adaline Wellhorn (?) by Stein in Texas. Also signed by Wellhorn (?) in contemporary ink on FFEP.
Seller Inventory # 9166
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Author
- Alice B. Toklas
- Publisher
- The Literary Guild
- Publication year
- 1933
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature - Classical
Ballard Books
Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 13, 2025
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 2.27 | £ 4.16 |
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Store description
Ballard Books is a full-service independent bookstore featuring gently used and collectible books, and antiquarian tomes and treasures. We are an independent brick and mortar store located in the heart of the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle.
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Ballard Books
WA, U.S.A.
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