By Gertrude Stein

Published by the Seizin Press, London 1929

First Edition.
Octavo.
50 pages.
Cream buckram covers.

The second book of Robert Graves’ Seizin Press.

Number 192 of 225 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the printed limitation label on the verso of the half-title page.

Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.

R20,000