This is the first edition of MATISSE, PICASSO AND GERTRUDE STEIN WITH TWO OTHER SHORT STORIES by Gertrude Stein, published in 1933 in Paris. This is dubbed a Plain Edition on the copyright page and is one of a limited edition of 500 copies published in Paris. It has tan wraps and a slipcase, both in very good condition. Gertrude Stein was one of the mainstay US expatriates who lived in Paris in the early year of the 20th Century and joined the ever-changing circle of avant-garde and bohemian writers, artists, and musicians who flourished in the Paris of the 1920s and 30s and whose experiments with language, sound, and images came to define modernism in the 20th Century. This group included James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dali, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, and many others who achieved world-wide fame. MATISSE, PICASSO AND GERTRUDE STEIN WITH TWO OTHER SHORT STORIES was written by Gertrude Stein in 1933, when she was in her 60s, and gives us a good look into the mind and heart of this great period in the 20th Century.