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  FIRST EDITION OF GERTRUDE STEIN'S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS; INSCRIBED BY HER TO AURELIA HENRY REINHARDT

  STEIN, Gertrude.

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

  New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933.

  First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription, "For Amelia Henry Reinhardt, ...it was in Oakland which is not near San Fernando and not at Pleasant Hill Gertrude Stein." The recipient, Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt, was an American educator, activist, and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She was active in numerous local, national, and international organizations, lecturing and writing on topics including international cooperation, suffrage, and women's rights and was appointed president of Mills College in Oakland, California (the second oldest women's college on the West Coast) and the American Association of University Women. In near fine condition. With Reinhardt's bookplate to the pastedown featuring a portrait of Dante.

  Price: $4,800.00     Item Number: 118746

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  First Edition of Gertrude Stein's Geography and Plays; Inscribed by Her

  STEIN, Gertrude.

  Geography and Plays.

  Boston: The Four Seas Company Publishers, 1922.

  First edition of this work by the author of The Autobiography of Alice Toklas. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Joanna Graham from Gertrude Stein." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson.

  Price: $750.00     Item Number: 118469

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