Buy this book on-line TOKLAS,ALICE B**: : What is Remembered:AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.**LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1963.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.Set and printed in Great Britian by Unwin Brothers
Limited at the Gresham Press,Woking,in Spectrum type,twelve-point leaded,on paper made by Henry Bruce at Currie, Midlothian, and bound by James Burn at Esher.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Dark mustard coloured dw/dj with black, yellow and white letters to upper panel - designed by Charles Gorsham, and lightly grubbed b/w photographic rear panel.Slight shelf-wear to dw/dj edges, light rubbing to corners with some miniscule loss;some tiny nicks again with miniscule loss and a closed tear to foot of spine/backstrip to bottom edges.Top edge of dw/dj has a closed tear to front panel, approx 1" vertical,triangular loss to head of spine/backstrip,partially
affecting text of title.Top+fore-edges slightly aged as usual/normal,contents bright,tight and clean.Virtually unblemished,publisher's original reddish-brown cloth bds - a tiny, tiny scuff/fray to head of spine/backstrip - with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean, plain white/cream eps with no off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.
8vo,5-192pp includes title+half-title pages,11 chapters,24pp contemporary b/w photographs,and an index.
Perhaps the most famous literary friendship of this century (then 1963) was that between Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein.(Alice B. Toklas was her Lesbian or crypto-Lesbian secretary-companion.)Sometime after WWI, Gertrude Stein began urging Miss Toklas to write her autobiography.But Miss Toklas did not find the time.And so, in 1933, Gertrude Stein wrote 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' for her, a book which became a best seller and was praised as "one of the richest, wittiest, and most irreverent" literary memoirs of our times.
Now, after nearly thirty years, Alice Toklas has provided her own entertaining account of her life with Miss Stein, recapturing not only the essence of her friend's remarkable personality but the essence of a remarkable time.In this absorbing memoir, she recalls her celebrated friendships with Picasso, Matisse, and Marie Laurencin, and her amusing experiences with Guillaume Apollinaire and Henri Rousseau.She tells of meeting Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and
Clive Bell, and of visiting Alfred North Whitehead and the Sitwells.She recreates the Paris of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott
Fitzgerald, of Sylvia Beach and James Joyce.
'What is Remembered' resounds with names of the renowned.Yet its distinction derives not from names, but from the author's quiet perceptions and her ability
to convey the delicate emotions she felt.
Miss Toklas's wit and personality are revealed on every page, and make this long-awaited memoir a major literary event.
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