The First British Edition of the highly influential autobiography of Gertrude Stein written as though by her confidant and life partner. In the original publishers cloth with "A Rose is a Rose" roundel to the front board and a bespoke, "home-made" dust wrapper, duplicating two of the 17 illustrations appearing in the text. (A previous reader has listed in neat soft pencil, the names of over over 50 poets,painters and writers mentioned in the book. An attractive and unique copy.