Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Edited With An Introduction, And Notes, By Carl Van Vechten.

Stein, Gertrude and Carl Van Vechten (editor). Random House,, New York:, 1946. First edition. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Carl Van Vechten. Cloth hardcover very good with light general wear ; 622 pages frontispiece photograph of Stein and Toklas in the garden of their villa at Bilignin, 1934 by Van Vechten; in a price-clipped dustjacket with some spine head edge and corner chips else good +++ near very good condition. The author died shortly before the publication of this book. Selection of Stein"s writings including: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, selections from The Making of Americans, Three Portraits of Painters, Melanctha, Tender Buttons, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia ... just a sample.

"Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914 (Gertrude and Leo), and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946 (Gertrude and Alice). Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world." wikipedia

"Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.^{[1]' wikipedia}