STEIN, GERTRUDE. [Label title:] Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia. [Florence: Privately Printed 1912]. 8vo, original Florentine wallpaper wrappers, printed paper label on front cover, spine a bit worn; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies issued, of Stein's second book; the scarcer variant (no priority) with the printer's imprint at foot of p. [12]. Wilson A2. A rare and fragile pamphlet. "Gertrude Stein having written 'The Portrait of Mabel Dodge,' Mabel Dodge immediately wanted it printed. She had three hundred copies struck off and bound in Florentine wallpaper. Constance Fletcher corrected the proofs and we were all awfully pleased"--Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

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STEIN, GERTRUDE. [Label title:] Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia. [Florence: Privately Printed 1912]. 8vo, original Florentine wallpaper wrappers, printed paper label on front cover, spine a bit worn; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies issued, of Stein's second book; the scarcer variant (no priority) with the printer's imprint at foot of p. [12]. Wilson A2. A rare and fragile pamphlet. "Gertrude Stein having written 'The Portrait of Mabel Dodge,' Mabel Dodge immediately wanted it printed. She had three hundred copies struck off and bound in Florentine wallpaper. Constance Fletcher corrected the proofs and we were all awfully pleased"--Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.