Alice B. Toklas. First edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $4.00 on inside flap. Jacket design by Ben Feder. There is wear and tear with this jacket but it's still intact. Hardcover: Very Good+ NY: Jolt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. No writing or markings in the book, 186 pp.
Includes many unnumbered pages of black and white photos, in addition to the 186 pages, from the 1930's and 1940's. A very collectible copy.
This is Alice Toklas's entertaining account of her life with author Gertrude Stein and their celebrated friendships with Picasso, Matisse, Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, and members of the Bloomsbury group. She also re-creates the 1920's Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Sylvia Beach.
"Perhaps the most literary friendship of this century was that between Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein. Sometime after World War One, Gertrude Stein began urging Miss Toklas to write to write her autobiography." The book was published four years before the death of Alice B. Toklas.
