Bits Paradise Uncollected Stories by Fitzgerald Scott Zelda Smith Scottie (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is scuffed and sunned, with some surface colour loss noted. Edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is lightly blemished. Initials penned to FEP. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). [8], 386 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed and well toned; some foxing and soiling spots; short tear and crease at rear panel's bottom center; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth; white lettering to spine. Strong toning/foxing to text block's top edge; foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Some foxing to interior leaves mostly occurring at margins. Binding is firm. With a Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith and Preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Features twenty-one short stories: "The popular girl;" "Love in the night;" "Our own movie queen;" "A penny spent;" "The dance;" "Jacob's ladder;" "The swimmers;" "The original follies girl;" "The southern girl;" "The girl the prince liked;" "The girl with talent;" "A millionaire's girl;" "Poor working girl;" "The hotel child;" "A new leaf;" "Miss Ella;" "The continental angle;" "A couple of nuts;" "What a handsome pair!;" "Last kiss;" "Dearly beloved." ISBN 0684139022.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine/near fine. First edition. octavo. A fine copy in dust jacket. First edition with full number line. Light creasing to bottom of dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition anthology of previously uncollected short stories by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The first edition. In a cloth binding with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This volume contains eleven uncollected stories by Scott Fitzgerald and all of Zelda Fitzgerald's short stories. Zelda's stories are virtually unknown. Here, for the first time she is given full credit. 'Bits of Paradise' represents all stages of the literary career of this brilliant couple who epitomized the gaiety and the tragedy of the inter-war period. In the original cloth binding. Externally, excellent with little shelf wear. The original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart and bright condition. Some shelf wear to the edges and a few closed tears to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; bluish-grey topstain; dustjacket; [vi],385,[1]pp + 8 photographic plates bound at center. Topstain partially faded, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with some trivial wear to extremities; very Near Fine. Volume gathering 11 uncollected stories by Scott Fitzgerald and all of Zelda's short fiction, with a foreword by their daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith.