8vo. Limited run of 516 copies, of which this is copy No. 272. [6], 87pp, [1]. With half-title. Uncut in original publisher's grey cloth. Lightly rubbed, with light toning to boards. Internally clean and crisp.

The limited first edition, in original cloth, of American poet and novelist Gertrude Stein's (1874-1946) semi-autobiographical three-part psychological novel, written in 1903 during her enrolment at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and heavily inspired by her experiences witnessing and experiencing lesbian relationships during the early twentieth century.