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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description
- This Side of Paradise. New York: Scribner's, 1920
- ink,cloth, ink
8vo. Original green cloth with gilt spine title; spine faded, drink ring to upper cover. Later printing dust jacket; very minor wear. Case.
Literature
Bruccoli A5.1.c
Catalogue Note
First edition, third printing. One of the special copies for ABA members with tipped-in "The Author's Apology" leaf signed by Fitzgerald.
Issued the same month as the first, an unknown number of the third printing "probably 500 copies" (Bruccoli) contained ꦑa tipped-in glossy page signed by the author and reading in part, "My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the 🧸schoolmasters of ever afterward. So, gentlemen, consider all the cocktails mentioned in this book drunk by me as a toast to the American Booksellers Association."