first edition, virtually flawless, signed by stein with a short presentation inscription; reads in full: "To Emily with much love, yours, Gertrude." One of 300 unnumbered copies. Wilson notes that "copies exist both with and without printer's imprint ... most copies examined lack the imprint" (Wilson A2).
an excellent association copy. Inscribed to Emily Crane Chadbourne, the American art collector, philanthopist and bon-vivant who was a frequent guest in the Paris salons of the period. "Gertrude described the meeting with Chadbourne and her guests in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Though she mistakenly put the events somewhat later, Stein remembered that 'Emily Chadbourne came, it was she who brought Lady Otoline [sic] Morrell and she also brought many Bostonians.'" (New York, 1990, p. 126); and see Nelson, The Art Collecting of Emily Crane Chadbourne and the Absence of Byzantine Art in Chicago, p. 136.