THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS [Signed by Stein and Toklas]

New York: The Literary Guild, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 310 pages. In Good minus condition with no dust jacket. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver titling to spine. Spine cocked, moderate staining and rubbing to boards, bumping to corners. News articles pasted to front pastedown and recto of front free end paper regarding Stein's opera. Two news articles by Bob Fleming appear on verso of front free end paper and verso of half-title: Dec 6, 1934 "Gertrude Stein Brands Her Critics As Feeble-Minded" and Dec 7, 1934 "Gertrude Stein Tells All, But Controversy Lingers on Here". All newspaper clippings causing acid-staining, including to the inscription. Fleming's bookplate appears on the front free end paper. Half-title inscribed by Gertrude Stein, with addition signature of Alice B. Toklas: "For Bob Fleming, who not only almost understood, but he will perhaps change almost into something else. With pleasant, most pleasant remembrances". Typed transcription pasted above inscription. With original photograph of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas loose within, stamped on rear, presumed taken in Madison, Wisconsin during her visit. MM Consignment. Shelved in Case 5. Stein gave two lectures in Madison, Wisconsin on December 6, 1934, accompanied by Alice B. Toklas. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933 by Gertrude Stein. It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner.




Robert H. Fleming spent 35 years as a newspaper, radio and television reporter before joining the White House staff in 1966 and became deputy press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and chief of the ABC News Washington bureau. He was one of four network correspondents who participated in the first of the 1960 radio-television debates between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. 1351649. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.