xv, [1], 622 pages frontispiece (group portrait) 22 cm
Note
"First printing."
Contents
A message from Gertrude Stein -- A Stein song by Carl Van Vechten -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- The gradual making of The making of American -- The making of Americans (selected passages) -- Three portraits of painters: Cézanne ; Matisse ; Picasso -- Melanctha: each one as she may -- Tender buttons -- Composition as explanation -- Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia -- Have they attacked Mary, he giggled (a political caricature) -- As a wife has a cow: a love story -- Two poems: Susie Asado ; Preciosilla -- Two plays: Ladies' voices ; What happened -- Miss Furr and Miss Skeene -- A sweet tail (gypsies) -- Four saints in three acts -- The winner loses: a picture of occupied France -- The coming of the Americans (from Wars I have seen).