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First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, inscribed by Fitzgerald to Zelda's sister and her husband Newman Smith in the year of publication and in the exceptionally rare first issue dust jacket. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. First printing with "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "itâs" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29; "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10; and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Rosalind and Capitan with affection from Scott and Zelda June (May) 1925." During their extended stay in Europe from 1924 to 1925, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived and traveled in several parts of France and Italy, including the French Riviera (notably Saint-Raphaël and Antibes), Paris, Rome, and the island of Capri. They were residing on the island of Capriâ"an isolated yet fashionable retreat in the Bay of Naplesâ"at the time of The Great Gatsbyâs publication on April 10, 1925, having temporarily withdrawn from the social pressures of the Riviera and the literary scene in Paris. While on Capri, Fitzgerald, still awaiting delivery of the published novel, sent Scribnerâs a series of personalized inscriptions written on loose slips of paper to be affixed into presentation copies for fellow writers such as Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Doren, and Van Wyck Brooks (see Letters, ed. Bruccoli, pp. 156â"158). By the time of this inscription to Rosalind and Capitan, Fitzgerald had access to an actual copy of the first edition. Fitzgeraldâs relationship with his wife Zelda's sister and brother-in-law, Rosalind Sayre Smith and her husband, Judge Newman "Cap" Smith, was complex. Fitzgerald had long harbored resentment toward Cap, who had vehemently opposed his courtship of Zelda. A Southern aristocrat and a judge, Capâs adherence to Southern traditions and his sense of familial duty made him an imposing figure in Zeldaâs life, and his disapproval of Fitzgeraldâs unconventional, somewhat bohemian lifestyle only fueled the tension between them. Moreover, Zelda's sister, Rosalind had been an active participant in discouraging the relationship from the outset. She viewed Fitzgerald as an unsuitable match for her sister, citing his lack of social standing and financial stability, as well as his uncertain future as a writer. This dynamic between Fitzgerald and the Smiths was fraught with familial tension and class-based animosities, much like those explored in Fitzgerald's work. Nevertheless, by 1925, tensions had eased enough to justify this gesture of literary diplomacy. That he now had access to a physical copy of the novel underscored a shift not only in Fitzgeraldâs circumstances but in the novelâs initial circulation. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48. The iconic dust jacket design for The Great Gatsby, created by Francis Cugat in 1924, has become an integral part of the novelâs identity, despite being designed before Fitzgerald had completed the manuscript. Commissioned by Scribner's Sons, Cugat was given minimal direction, relying instead on his understanding of the novelâs themesâ"wealth, excess, and the disillusionment of the American Dream. Featuring a striking, ethereal likeness of a womanâs face with large, captivating eyes set against a blue night sky filled with city lights, the jacket painting evokes the image of Dr. T.J. Eckleburgâs billboard in the novel, symbolizing the moral decay of society, while the vibrant city lights suggest the allure and emptiness of Gatsbyâs world. Fitzgerald reportedly reacted positively to the design, feeling that it captured the essence of his novel, even before its completion. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket, with the lowercase "j" in "jay Gatsby" on the back panel, corrected in ink. Jacket art by Francis Cugat.ÂHoused in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. An outstanding association copy, exceedingly rare with a contemporary presentation inscription and in the scarce first issue dust jacket; perhaps the most iconic dust jacket of the 20th century. In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald declared his intention to write "something newâ"something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." This vision materialized in The Great Gatsby, a novel that would become not only Fitzgeraldâs finest work but also the definitive literary achievement for which he is best remembered. With its portrayal of the Jazz Age in all its excess, extravagance, and moral decay, The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Roaring Twenties and provided a poignant exploration of the American Dream's contradictions. The novelâs intricate narrative, beautiful prose, and profound themes elevated it to a status far beyond its initial reception. Although it was not immediately recognized as a masterpiece, it eventually became a permanent fixture in American literature and culture. It has been celebrated as one of the most important works in the canon of American fiction. Literary critic Cyril Connolly hailed The Great Gatsby as one of the six best American novels, noting that it "remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (Modern Movement 48). Through its vivid depiction of the 1920s, The Great Gatsby continues to resonate with readers and remains a crucial work for understanding both the historical period it depicts and the broader themes of aspiration, love, and disillusionment in the American experience. Fitzgerald's ability to blend beauty, complexity, and simplicity in a single narrative ensures that The Great Gatsby endures as an essential part of the American literary tradition. After World War II, The Great Gatsby steadily gained popularity and.

218 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in the first dust jacket dust jacket; preserved in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. First edition; first printing, with all the earliest points in the text. The dust jacket is the state with a "j" corrected by overprinting to upper case. Very near fine, with bright gold on the spine. The dust jacket has some chipping to the extremities, affecting "The" and "Scott" on the front panel. The jacket has excellent color and the lettering on the backstrip is white. The 4 mm of extra paper at the top of the jacket is present.

Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, âWith the Pleasant memories of La Paix behind me alas and alack! Souvenir of 1932â"1933 for M.T. from her â" at least from one who was almost made to feel like â" a guest. F. Scott Fitzgerald.â The recipient, Margaret Turnbull, who with her husband Bayard owned La Paix, a 28â"acre estate with a large Victorian house near Towson, Maryland. The Fitzgeralds rented La Paix from the Turnbulls in 1932 and 1933 because of its proximity to the Phipps Clinic, the psychiatric branch of Johns Hopkins, where Zelda was being treated. This is also where Fitzgerald finished work on his second masterpiece, Tender is the Night. The Turnbulls lived nearby in another house on the estate; while Bayard Turnbull disapproved of Fitzgerald, his wife Martha shared an interest in literature with him and became a good friend of him. According to her son, at their first dinner together âFitzgerald grew heated on the subject of Thomas Wolfe and left the table to get his copy of âLook Homeward, Angelâ, which he insisted my mother take with her and read at once⦠Out of such treads their friendship was woven. Each time they met here was a carryâ"over from the previous meeting â" something to discuss that seemed of vital importance⦠He was constantly lending my mother books: Proust, D.H. Lawrence, Hemingway, Rilke, the diary of Otto Braun⦠My mother became for a brief season a listener to and therefore a sharer of his thoughtsâ (Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 221â"240). It was Margaret Turnbull who introduced Fitzgerald to T.S. Eliot when the poet was staying with her family while lecturing at Johns Hopkins on the Metaphysical Poets. Bruccoli A11.1.b; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48. In near fine condition with the spine gilt exceptionally bright. First edition, second printing with "sickantired" on page 205, most inscribed copies are second printings. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association, most rare and desirable. In 1922, Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Cyril Connolly called The Great Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: "Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (Modern Movement 48). Consistently gaining popularity after World War II, the novel became an important part of American high school curricula. Today it is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period. It was the basis for numerous stage and film adaptations. Gatsby had four film adaptations, with two exceptionally big-budget versions: the 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, as well as Baz Luhrmannâs 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carrie Mulligan. Fitzgeraldâs granddaughter praised Lurhmannâs adaptation, stating âScott would be proud.â Second printing, with âecholaliaâ on p. 60, ânorthernâ for âsouthernâ on p. 119, âsickantiredâ on p. 205, and âUnion Street stationâ for âUnion Stationâ on p. 211.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in the original third state dust jacket professionally restored Very Good+. Scribners Seal Errors not corrected that verify true first printing: p.60, line 16"chatter"; p. 119, line 22"northern"; p. 165, line 29"away"; p. 205lines 9-10"sick in tired"; p. 211, lines 7-8"Union Street station". The first issue dust jacket had a lowercase "j" in "jay Gatsby" on the back panel, the First issue jacket was corrected by hand and the capital letter "J" was hand written over the lower case these are considered the second state. For the third state the jacket has book reviews on the back of the dust jacket, as well as on both inner flaps. There were 20,870 copies of the first second and third states only 3000 copies of the third state. With 3,000 third state jackets printed this is exceedingly harder find than the first two jackets.

First edition, second issue of Fitzgerald's masterpiece with all six second issue points present, including: âecholaliaâ on page 60, âsouthernâ on page 119, âsickantiredâ on page 205, and âUnion Stationâ on page 211. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Theodore L. Liedemedt in memory of that week we went rowing in a bull-fiddle through the lovely lakes of Central Park, from Stravinski (Alias F. Scott Fitzgerald) May 1885 'Stuttgart.'" The recipient, Theodore L. Liedemedt, was a German-born musician and close personal friend of Fitzgerald's. Kept in Liedemedtâs family for over ninety years, family lore has it that the two first met on board a transatlantic ship crossing in the 1920s (Fitzgerald traveled to Europe in 1921, 1924, 1928, and 1929). Liedemedt was a working musician who performed on some of those crossings. He died in 1929, just making it to 30. Fitzgerald, older only by three years, just outlived his friend, dying in 1940 at 44. A South New Jerseyian in the later part of his short life, Liedemedt arrived on American shores in 1915 during the First World War. He worked first on the crew of a German merchantman, interned in the Delaware River, then from June 1916 at a day job in Philadelphia. When the United States entered the First World War officially on April 6, 1917, Liedemedt was detained by the FBI on April 7. He was released a few days later when they found that he did not hare the political convictions of his home country and was, therefore, not a threat to the United States. Fitzgerald took up residence in New Jersey in in 1911 when he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in Hackensack. After graduating he attending Princeton University, only a few miles from Liedemedtâs stomping grounds, where Fitzgerald abruptly left in 1917 to join the American Army. Having avoided active service in Europe he moved to New York City where he would begin his career as a writer. Fitzgerald and Liedemedt were never more than roughly 80 miles from each other, from Liedemedtâs landing in 1915 to his early death 14 years later. The nature of the inscriptionâ"knowing, familiar, full of inside referencesâ"points to an intimacy not documented in an other sources in Fitzgeraldâs archives. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional inscription from Fitzgerald. In 1922, Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Cyril Connolly called The Great Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: "Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (Modern Movement 48). Consistently gaining popularity after World War II, the novel became an important part of American high school curricula. Today it is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel". In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period. It was the basis for numerous stage and film adaptations. Gatsby had four film adaptations, with two exceptionally big-budget versions: the 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, as well as Baz Luhrmannâs 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carrie Mulligan. Fitzgeraldâs granddaughter praised Lurhmannâs adaptation, stating âScott would be proud.â Second printing, with âecholaliaâ on p. 60, ânorthernâ for âsouthernâ on p. 119, âsickantiredâ on p. 205, and âUnion Street stationâ for âUnion Stationâ on p. 211.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing, one of 3,000 copies, with all six textual errors from the first printing corrected. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald and inscribed "For Dorothy Bissell, April 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in memory of hot arguments over the Supreme Court and the autonomy of Barcelona." Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and upper board in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket; housed in a custom chemise case. Very Good with a few abrasions to the cloth most notably at the spine, a patch of slight discoloration along the top edge of the rear cover, light occasional foxing throughout. Signed copies of the author's best-known work are scarce and desirable. This copy was auctioned by Christie's in 1983, and again in 1994. In 1983 it was sold alongside copies of This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, also inscribed by Fitzgerald to Dorothy Bissell in a rather playful manner and dated April, 1937. During April, 1937, Fitzgerald was living at the Oak Hall Hotel in Tyron, North Carolina while Zelda was in Highland Hospital in nearby Asheville. He was heavily in debt, often drunk, and his career was at a standstill; he would embark for Hollywood in June. Brucolli A 11.1.b.

First U.K. Edition. First Impression (from American plates), one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); primary binding in dark blue V cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],218pp. Hint of a forward lean, gentle sunning to spine, with some scattered foxing to text edges, preliminary, and terminal leaves; hinges sound; Very Good+. In the Francis Cugat dustjacket, the second issue, with the original 7s. price clipped by the publisher, and the shadow of the new price sticker directly above; gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing to spine ends, joints, and flap folds; minute loss to upper corner-tips, a few tiny tears, with shallow loss to crown, affecting the "T" in "The;" small area of loss skillfully and professionally restored at upper front panel (2 5/8" by 3/4", affecting parts of "The" and the "Gr" in the title); Very Good+. Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell case. The first English edition of Fitzgerald's third novel and most enduring work, the story of a flamboyant racketeer's attempt to recapture the upper-class girl he fell in love with during the waning years of World War I. While hailed for many decades as an American classic, Gatsby was a commercial disappointment during its time; its two printings totaled 23,870 copies, and at the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, stacks of them still remained unsold in the Scribner's warehouse. The UK edition of Gatsby was published from the American plates of the second Scribner's edition, which incorporated corrections to the six textual errors in the first state of the text. Fitzgerald, eager for a better literary reputation in England than he ever enjoyed, was disappointed when his primary publisher, William Collins, turned down the opportunity to publish Gatsby, stating that to published the novel "would be to reduce the number of his readers rather than to increase them." Chatto & Windus would publish the novel in a print run a fraction of the size of the Scribner's edition. In his introduction to New Essays on The Great Gatsby, Matthew Bruccoli notes that "The English impact was negligible. The 1926 Chatto & Windus printing did not sell well, although reviews were better than those Fitzgerald's previous novels had received in England. The Times Literary Supplement called it "undoubtedly a work of art and of great promise"; Edward Shanks in the London Mercury commended the author's control over his material. Conrad Aiken, writing in The New Criterion, praised the form and originality of the novel but stated that it is not "great," "large," or "strikingly subtle" (pp.3-4). Considerably scarcer than its American counterpart, with no jacketed examples found in the auction record, and OCLC noting a scant 20 holdings (of these, only 13 in U.S. institutions). Bruccoli A11.1.c.; Sutherland & Connell. The Connell Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (2010), p.64; Connolly 48.

Two original drafts, the first draft and the second and final draft, for Fitzgerald's short story "I Didn't Get Over", written in summer 1936 and published in Esquire magazine that October. The most noticeable differences between the two drafts are at the beginning and end of the piece. The title is slightly changed: in the first draft, it is "I Never Got Over"; in the second, that is amended in manuscript to "I Didn't Get Over". In the story, a former army captain who failed to make it to the front in the First World War confesses his responsibility for a training-camp accident that claimed the lives of several soldiers. At the end, the second draft, Fitzgerald adds in pencil the coda that makes the identity of the army captain clear: "I was that captain, and when I rode up to join my company he acted as if he'd never seen me before. It kind of threw me off - because I used to love this place. Well - good night." The summer of 1936 was a difficult one for Fitzgerald. From February to April 1936, he had published the essays in Esquire magazine that are now well known as The Crack-Up, the articles that helped invent confessional journalism, in which he revealed the collapse of his life and his hopes, and his determination to save himself with his art. A year or so later, he would begin work on his last, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon. The two drafts were given by Fitzgerald to James B. Hurley, who had answered a classified ad to do some typing and found himself employed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1936, having just graduated from Brown University with a BA in English, Hurley left his hometown of Providence, RI, and went to North Carolina looking for work. Hurley typed Fitzgerald's manuscripts, which were written in longhand, on a Remington portable designed for double-spaced work. Fitzgerald wanted his first drafts triple-spaced in order to edit between the lines, so Hurley had to turn the roller by hand at the end of each line to provide the extra space. Hurley worked for Fitzgerald for nine months, at the end of which Fitzgerald inscribed three of his novels to Hurley and presented him with the manuscripts of two short stories, this and the Civil War story, "The End of Hate". Both were sold at auction, Sotheby's New York, 4 Dec. 1996, the present two drafts as lot 88. The story was first published in book form in the posthumous collection Afternoon of an Author (1957). Bruccoli C266. First draft: 20 leaves, various sizes (largest 330 x 214 mm), partly triple-spaced typescript with pencil holograph amendments, completed in pencil manuscript. Second draft: 9 pages (US Letter: 11 x 8.5 ins), double-spaced typescript with pencil holograph amendments. Minor rusting from paper clips, clips retained separately; notably well-preserved.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This First state dustjacket has the "j" corrected by overprinting the "j" with an upper case J. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has been professionally restored by master conservator who has beautifully matched the colors that were missing to the rest of the dustjacket. The restoration along the folds, edges, including a new spine is expertly replaced and presents well. The book is bound in the publisher's green cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the spine and edges. This First Edition, First Printing has ALL the First Issue points in the book "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, "away" on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Full green cloth binding with blindstamped letters to boards & gilt lettering to spine under dust jacket illustrated by Francis Cugat, 7-3/4" x 5-1/2", 218 pp. First printing with all flaws. Dust jacket is third state with eight blurbs. Small blemish to front panel, small price sticker with penciled 20-cent price to rear endpapers. Jacket has wear and shallow chipping at edges, shallow loss to spine ends with no lettering loss except a smidgin of the first S in Scribners, short tear to center of spine panel, front flap detached, closed tear to rear panel. Near fine in good jacket.An uncommon book in that almost all states of the jacket are important. It famously flopped upon release, and only went through two printings (the second printing is actually less common than the first.) The first printing was 20,870 copies based on the success of his first two novels, but the second only 3,000 copies. It was slow to sell. Very slow. The first state jacket had a typo, which was hand-corrected in the second state. This third state jacket, however, shows a renewed marketing effort on the part of Scribner?s, as they were able to find enough positive reviews to fill the rear panel. Alas, it still didn?t catch on, and by the time Fitzgerald died in 1940, copies of the second printing were sitting unsold in Scribner?s warehouse.

408 pp. Decorations by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition, first printing. Bruccoli A15.I.a. A fine copy in a beautiful unrestored dust jacket, with only a little of the usual fading to the backstrip, and a 2-1/4" split at the bottom of the front jacket fold.

First Edition; first printing; second state (correcting misprints); covers spotted; some cloth wear; half of rear free endpaper torn out; just a good copy in a supplied very good dust jacket with the price stamped on the front flap in the smaller of the two sizes (no priority is established); in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy, humorously and, very possibly, drunkenly inscribed by the author, 'For Shirley Chidsey, These tales of our life in Tahiti and the Maori Jungle From her friend F. Scott ('Nordoff[sic]-and-Hall'). Jan 1st 1899.' The recipient was the wife of novelist Donald Barr Chidsey, some of whose work was set in the South Seas. Shirley Chidsey (later Bridgwater) worked in publishing her entire career, and lived in Tahiti for three years, working closely with the authors while editing Nordhoff and Hall's Bounty Trilogy. For the most part, the authors wrote alternating chapters, making the work of an editor especially vital in compiling a consistent and coherent narrative. This unsung contribution must have been time consuming. The first novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, was issued in 1932; the Charles Laughton - Clark Gable film, based on this version of events, came to the screen in 1935. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Full Description: FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition. First printing with "Published September, 1920" and the Scribner's seal on the copyright page. In the rare first issue original pictorial dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some professional restoration shows extremely well. This is the scarcest of all the Fitzgerald books to find in Dust jacket. There has been no copy in jacket at auction since 2013 and it had some repairs. Before that it was in 1977, the Goodwin copy. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 190 x 130 mm). [viii], [1]-269, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's original dark green cross-hatch cloth. Front board lettered in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge brown, other's uncut. Final blank is roughly and partially opened, leaving a short, closed tear. A few mild scuffs to cloth. Some very light spotting to endpapers and about 4 other leaves. Jacket is tissue backed along folds, top and bottom edges. The upper extremity of the front panel and head of spine with some infill, but nearly invisible, just touching the top of two letters "FL". Some minor restoration to bottom of jacket spine. A short closed tear to rear panel through one letter. Some professional touch-ups to color around letters at the top front of jacket. Overall jacket is exceptionally clean and bright. Overall a near fine example of the book. Housed in a full morocco clamshell. One of 5,000 copies of the first printing, this is Fitzgerald's first book of short stories. Published just six months after Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers contains "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," a contender for his finest and most famous short story. Flappers and Philosophers is virtually unobtainable in dust jacket. It is the most elusive of mainstream twentieth century jackets. The front flap hypes this book and the back flap hypes This Side of Paradise; the back panel ads begin with Eskine Dale and ends with On a Passing Frontier; jacket conforms with the bibliography (Bruccoli). Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A6.1a. HBS 69171. $45,000.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "A pretty broken and prematurely old man who hasn't a penny except what he can bring out of a weary mind and sick body." ***Typescript employment contract enclosed in stiff brown folder. 20 pages on legal paper dated August 21, 1937. Some minor creases along the margins, else Fine. Housed in a beautiful custom leather clamshell case. Initialed on page 2 and also signed at the end by Fitzgerald.*** The contract is initialed and signed as well by studio vice-president and notorious fixer Eddie Mannix, a real-life Ray Donovan figure who was responsible for countless coverups of often serious crimes and dirty dealings involving stars like Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, and George Reeves(Mannix is rumored to have been involved in his infamous and mysterious death) amongst many others.*** Having faded into near oblivion, the American icon sought redemption in the West. His meteoric of meteoric rises, a decade of era-defining success, had culminated in a professional and personal fall from grace. Fitzgerald s debts hovered around $22,000 while his income was $3,500, and that was only half the cost of Zelda s in-patient psychiatric treatment. Of his various screenwriting stints, his most productive output occurred under this MGM contract.*** The contract stipulates: "The author agrees to conduct himself with due regard to public conventions and morals, and agrees that he will not do or commit any act or thing that will tend to degrade him in society or bring him into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community or ridicule public morals or decency, or prejudice the producer or motion picture, theatrical or radio industry in general. *** Historical context: In the summer of 1937, broke, in debt and trying desperately to dry out, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he joined the legions of jerks with Underwoods, to paraphrase the studio chief Jack Warner's famous put-down of screenwriters. Fitzgerald was part of what amounted to a literary exodus. Among the writers already there or soon to join him were Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, S. J. Perelman, Nathanael West and the British novelists Anthony Powell and Aldous Huxley, all in search of easy money He occupied a small office on the third floor of the writers building, where from ten in the morning until six at night he worked on scripts and drank bottles of Coca-Cola, carefully arranging the empties around the room. Fitzgerald lasted eighteen months at MGM, during which time he worked on five scripts, wrote another one more or less from scratch, and generated a pile of notes and memos. And if his work was altered or rejected, he d follow up with bitter, self-justifying letters. *** A special artifact marking a key juncture in an icon s life. *** Ref: Fitzgerald as Screenwriter: No Hollywood Ending, Charles McGrath Slow Fade, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, Arthur Krystal The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kirk Curnutt ***Please email us for better pricing.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing; first issue with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. In a beautiful and unrestored first issue dust jacket. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with decorations by Edward Shenton. Near Fine with light splashes to cloth, light crease to front paste down, toning to pages and old bookseller ticket to rear paste down. In a Near Fine unclipped first issue dust jacket with slight sunning to the spine, light wear at the extremities with chipping and a stray mark to the crown, a tiny spot and a small patch of light discoloration to the front panel, and a light tidemark near the foot of the spine visible from the blindside. The author's fourth and final novel. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness.

408 pp. Decorations by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher's cloth in the first dust jacket, preserved in a custom full morocco folding box. First edition, first issue in the first dust jacket. A fine bright copy in a beautiful dust jacket with very slight use to the bottom of the backstrip. The backstrip is a little faded, but much less than usually seen. A two-inch split at the top of the rear jacket flap fold has been neatly closed with japanese tissue.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the ORIGINAL FIRST STATE dustjacket. A stunning dustjacket that has benefitted from professional restoration. The end result is a beautiful dustjacket that is rich in color with no chips or tears. The book is excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions.

Hardcover. Mixed Editions. The present collection includes: Six works inscribed by Ogden Nash to his wife, Frances; Three works by Nash bearing edits in Nash's hand; and 48 books inscribed by various authors to Nash (most notably, 12 books inscribed by S. J. Perelman). It also includes 132 uninscribed books not authored by Nash, 45 of which bear his ownership inscription (and 10 of which bear the ownership inscription of Frances Nash). Books written by Nash: 59 total (two of which are co-authored by another individual) Volumes edited in Nash's hand 2 volumes in publisher's bindings 1 volume in "Author's Copy" half leather binding, with dozens of pages removed (presumably to assemble a new collected edition of poems) Books inscribed to Frances Leonard Nash 5 works by Ogden Nash 4 works in original bindings 1 work in "Author's Copy" half leather binding 1 work by Anthony Trollope (The Chronicles of Barsetshire: 1. The Warden) 1 volume signed by numerous members of Little, Brown and Co. publishing staff 27 Author's copies bound in half leather, not already accounted for in list above 1 volume bound in full red leather 21 volumes, unmarked, in standard publisher's bindings Books not authored by Nash: 180 in total Volumes inscribed to Nash: 48 volumes Notably, this collection includes 12 works inscribed by S.J. Perelman Uninscribed volumes: 132 volumes 45 of these bear Ogden Nash's ownership inscription 10 of these bear Frances Leonard Nash's ownership inscription, generally from before her marriage Notably, this collection includes a first edition, first issue of The Great Gatsby with all points present, but lacking the dust jacket. To view the full inventory, please click HERE. All items are in good or better condition, unless otherwise stated. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. Shelved Amazon End-Cap. The present collection offers a window into the literary world of American poet and humorist Ogden Nash (19021971). It is comprised of 239 volumes published between 1886 and 1971, among which are numerous presentation and association copies. All books in the present collection come from the shared personal library of Ogden and Frances Nash. The collection spans poetry, humor, light verse, and literary criticism, and includes a significant number of first and limited editions, often in original bindings or dust jackets. Of particular note are six books inscribed by Nash to his wife, Frances (including five authored by Nash, one of which is in an "Author's Copy" half-leather binding). Included in the collection are 59 works by Nash, three of which feature edits to the text in Nash's hand. Twenty-seven of these Nash publications are Author's copies bound in half-leather. There are an additional 48 volumes bearing inscriptions to Nash from other authors and poets, most notably twelve volumes inscribed by S.J. Perelman. Among the 132 uninscribed volumes included here, 45 bear Ogden Nash's ownership inscription (10 bear the ownership inscription of Frances Nash). The number and range of authorial inscriptions represented in the present collections reflect Nash's wide-ranging literary friendships and professional associations. Notable among these are twelve warmly inscribed titles by humorist S.J. Perelman, whose acerbic wit is on display in a series of affectionate, playful, and sometimes satirical inscriptions to both Nash and his wife, Frances. These volumes also reflect Perelman and Nash's shared experiences in Hollywood and the literary scene of mid-century America. Other highlights include inscriptions from John Betjeman, Christopher Morley, E.C. Bentley, A.P. Herbert, David McCord, William Plumer Fowler, and Holger Lundbergh, among otherseach evidencing Nash's influence and the esteem in which he was held across literary and cultural circles in the U.S. and the U.K. Of particular note are the six books personally inscribed by Ogden Nash to his wife, Frances, often composed in his characteristic rhymed style. These inscriptions reflect a deep relationship of tenderness, humor, and enduring partnership. The collection also includes school prize books awarded to Nash in the 1910s, including works by Matthew Arnold, Robert Burns, and Aeschylus, many bound in gilt-tooled leather and bearing formal prize inscriptions from St. George's School. These early items chart the poet's formative years and offer rare provenance tied to his intellectual development. 1399573. Special Collections.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. FITZGERALD, F(RANCIS) SCOTT. (1896-1940). American writer; author of: The Great Gatsby, as well as: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is the Night; Fitzgerald is best known for chronicling the excesses and tribulations of the Jazz Age. Superb, and very scarce Typed Letter Signed, ''Scott Fitz''. Several minor corrections in his hand. Two pages, quarto. ''1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland'', May 14, 1935. Very fine condition. To ''Dear Verner''. Fitzgerald writes: ''Thank you for your long interesting letter. I got more news of Montgomery out of it than all other correspondence put together but other correspondence usually means Mrs. Sayre s account of her garden and the flowers therein. It is hard to realize that it s been three years since that gloomy winter. Since then there have been other winters quite as gloomy but none in which I felt a more vast and helpless impatience. Something about Montgomery makes me vaguely uncomfortable. The army people seem to me much more like hostile troops gathered there than like a part of that fierce little town; and army people, like Jews, are oppressive in crowds with their damned hierarchy. I speak from experience because I was once aide-de-camp to a general and writhed under it. Zelda has been sick and unproductive since her art exhibit in New York last year. In fact, the Fitzgeralds are slowly rotting like the other survivors of our period. We had a hell of a good time when it lasted though, which is more than can be said of your generation. Why don t you write a comedy about the Little Theatre? Surely The Torch-bearers isn t the only thing that can be extracted from that racket. With best wishes to you and to all whom I know including Mesdames Read, McKinney and LeGrand. Ever yours, Scott Fitz''. Fitzgerald s letters, simply don t get much better than this! And while good books appear to be plentiful, letters of this quality rarely appear on the market. One of our: ''Best of the Best''.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This first issue dustjacket has the blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld printed on front flap. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with some repair. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions.

305 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth. Early edition; sixth printing, July, 1920. Very good or better, with light use to extremities of the spine. The gold is quite bright and completely legible. Author's first book. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald for Edward Everett Horton, with a full-page inscription, including "the later Ring Lardner once said of Irwin Cobb that he was 'very fond of books, of which he has a complete set'." Edward Everett Horton, a Hollywood actor, was Fitzgerald's landlord in the late 1930s in Encino, California.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. First Edition, third printing SIGNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the glossy leaf bearing "The Author's Apology." A beautiful copy. According to the Fitzgerald Bibliography by Bruccoli, "500 copies of the third printing have a special tipped-in glossy leaf bearing "The Author's Apology" each signed by Fitzgerald. These copies were prepared for a meeting of the American Booksellers Association." The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth and is in amazing shape. The gold lettering on the spine is present, and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The binding is tight and square with NO cocking. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy F. Scott Fitzgerald First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

First edition in book form, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review on the front flap. Fitzgerald considered Tender is the Night to be his masterpiece. He began writing it shortly after the publication of The Great Gatsby. The plot mirrors the Fitzgeralds' own struggles with alcohol and mental illness, which snowballed as Fitzgerald worked on this, his last completed novel. It was serialized by Scribner's Magazine between January and April 1934. Bruccoli A15.I.a. Octavo. Illustrations in the text by Edward Shenton. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, frame to front board in blind, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding case. Trivial bumps to lower edge of front board, small stains to edges; jacket unclipped, shallow loss to ends of sunned spine panel, chips and closed tears to fold ends, rear panel a little soiled, offsetting from tape removal on verso: a fine copy in very good jacket.

Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing, first state of the author's second novel. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with upper board stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Approaching Fine, with sharp and bright gilt stamping, corners just slightly bumped, tanning to pages, light browning to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine first issue dust jacket with the title in outline on the upper panel, with light soiling, light edge wear with several shortish tears some of which have been mended from the blindside. A fantastic copy, housed in a custom chemise folding case.

Full Description: FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition, first printing. Only 3,000 copies printed (compared to just under 21,000 copies of The Great Gatsby) of which only a handful survive in the original dust jacket. Copyright page states "Published April, 1920" with the Scribner's Seal and no statements of reprinting. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 193 x 132mm). [8], 305, [7, blank] pp. This copy has a previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper which is dated April 11, 1920 and reads "To Dear Old 1786, From Cuzzled." This book was published on March 26th, 1920, so this had to have been one of the earliest printed copies. Original dark bluish green linen-like grain cloth lettered in blind on front cover and ruled and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge dyed brown, others uncut. Some very minor shelfwear to the head and tail of the spine and corners. Inner hinges with hairline cracks, but holding firm. Pages lightly toned, but still a very good copy. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has been expertly restored with a the front flap in facsimile. Also restored it the top 1/8 -inch of the upper edge and left corner of the front panel, with the "TH" of "THIS" in facsimile, the top of the spine with "This Side of" and most of "Paradise" in facsimile. The bottom of the spine with the "BNERS" of Scribners in facsimile. The back panel has restoration to top and bottom edge, and "IBNER FI" of "Scribner Fiction" in facsimile. The back flap also has restoration along edges. The whole jacket has been backed. Even with all of the restoration, this is still a scarce item. Any jacket for this book is a rare find, even with heavy restoration. Overall a very good set. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. Fitzgerald had previously written lyrics to musical comedies that were privately published by Princeton University. This is his first literary work. "Immature though it seems today, [This Side of Paradise] when it was first published was considered a revelation of new morality of the young in the early Jazz Age; and it made Fitzgerald famous. The novel's hero, Amory Blaine, is a handsome, spoiled young man who attends Princeton, becomes involved in literary activities and has several ill-fated romances. A portrait of the Lost Generation, the novel addresses Fitzgerald's later theme of love distorted by social climbing and greed" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature). "Fitzgerald was still at university when he submitted the manuscript, then titled The Romantic Egoist, to Charles Scribner, whom he had known at Princeton. It was published on 26 March 1920, was an immediate success, and launched Fitzgerald's literary career." (Sotheby's). Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A5.1.a HBS 68907. $27,500.

First editions, first impressions, first issue of The Great Gatsby with 'sick in tired' on p205, 'chatter' on p60, 'northern' p119, and 'Union Street station' p211; 5 vols, 8vo; Scribner seal to copyright pages, page stock slightly toned (as often), very occasional minor spotting and smudging to margins, evidence of ownership signature to half-title of The Last Tycoon, else all vols clean and fresh; full dark green morocco gilt by Temple Bookbinders, gilt lettering to spines, red topstain to The Last Tycoon; an attractive set. A superb set of first editions by one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, uniformly bound in an attractive full green morocco binding. These works have inspired numerous adaptations for both film and television, with the most recent being the Academy Award winning film adaptation of The Great Gatsby (2013) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan.

First edition, first printings of each of F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs works. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound by full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, twin rule to turn ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. F. Scott Fitzgerald signature on the front panel of each volume. In fine condition. An exceptional set. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, displayed a sophisticated cynicism masking keen psychological insight and sensitivity to the falseness of the ideals of the so-called "jazz era" in America, following World War I. Fitzgerald continued to write on this theme in two volumes of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age. With the publication of The Great Gatsby, the story of a gross and ostentatious man who gained immense material success but who destroyed himself and those around him in the process, F. Scott Fitzgerald's full powers as a novelist were revealed; he was ranked by many critics as one of the pre-eminent American writers. In his later writings, as exemplified by the short story collections All the Sad Young Men and Taps at Reveille, and the novel Tender is the Night, his central theme shifted to what he deemed the inevitable corruption of the individual by the blind crassness of modern society.

First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Mr. Swelwynn (sic)- Here's the new version of the play. Sincerely F. Scott Fitzgerald." The recipient, prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century. An actor, playwright, director and producer on Broadway, he founded a theatrical production company with his brother, Archibald Selwyn, and owned a number of Selwyn Theatres in the United States. He transferred his talents from the stage to motion pictures, and directed a film for which Helen Hayes received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Selwyn co-founded Goldwyn Pictures in 1916. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional association. Fitzgeraldâs original title for this absurdist romantic farce had been Gabrielâs Trombone. He told editor Max Perkins it was âthe best piece of American comedy to date, and undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.â His next book was The Great Gatsby (Berg, Max Perkins, Editor of Genius, 50). Bruccoli A10.1.a.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, first issue dustjacket with outline in Black with White lettering. This scarce dustjacket has benefitted from light restoration to the spine and folds. The end result is a dustjacket that looks spectacular. The colors are sharp, and there is no chipping, or wear to the dustjacket. The book is tight, with some rubbing to the boards. The pages are clean with no writing or marks in the book. Overall, a stunning copy of this true first edition that is seldom seen in this nice of condition. We buy F. Scott Fitzgerald First Editions.

414 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Extremities of spine slightly worn; gold almost entirely effaced from spine. The copy is otherwise very good. Inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Ring and Ellis" [Lardner], signed "Scott," with an obscure personal reference, Christmas, 1928.