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FINE ASSOCIATION COPY
239
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STEIN, GERTRUDE.
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia.
8vo,
original hand-made floral Florentine wallpaper wrappers, printed paper label on front
cover, barely perceptible rubbing along spine; issue with printer’s imprint present at end. A
fine copy.
(Florence: Privately Printed, [1912])
[4,000/6,000]
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” (WilsonA2).
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.’” (NewYork, 1990, p. 126); and see
Nelson, The Art Collecting of Emily Crane
Chadbourne and the Absence of Byzantine Art
in Chicago, p. 136.