The Beautiful and Damned.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Edité par New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922

First edition, first printing, in the rare first issue dust jacket, with the title in outline on the front panel. That Fitzgerald's second novel was a thinly disguised portrait of his and Zelda's difficult marriage did not stop him taking offence that the jacket design resembled, as he wrote to his editor Max Perkins, "a debauched version of me". In 1930 Fitzgerald commiserated with Zelda, "I wish the Beautiful and Damned had been a maturely written book because it was all true. We ruined ourselves - I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other" (quoted in Bruccoli, p. 155). Bruccoli A8.I.a. Matthew Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1981. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board in blind and to spine gilt. With dust jacket designed by William E. Hill. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Cloth bright and square, front inner hinge repaired, faint foxing to endpapers, contents clean; jacket somewhat rubbed and soiled, flap folds repaired, couple of small chips to extremities, browning from old tape repair to one corner, without price as issued: a very good copy in like jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 162118

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Beautiful and Damned.
Éditeur : New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922
Edition : Edition originale