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F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) | First Editions
1896 - 1940
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s - referring to the generation which came of age during WWI, including T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, and many others. Fitzgerald finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his best known), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. His fiction focuses upon the themes of youth, promise, ageing, and despair.
The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...". In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald's work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as "Fitzgerald's successor". Moreover, Richard Yates (a writer often compared to Fitzgerald) called The Great Gatsby "a miracle of talent". Into the 21st century, millions of copies of The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's other works have been sold. Gatsby remains a constant best-seller, is required reading in many high school and college classes in the United States.
See below our stock of F. Scott Fitzgerald First Editions, and fine bindings.
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The Great Gatsby.
London: The Folio Society, 2013. [Jazz Age classic] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 158 [4]. With seven colour-illustrated plates by Connelly, including a frontispiece. Publisher's purple buckram, titled and illustrated in pink and black to spine and upper. Purple patterned endpapers, with the matching paper-covered slipcase. A touch..... More
The Great Gatsby.
London: Grey Walls Press, 1948. [Jazz Age classic] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.164. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by George Woodman, priced at 8/6 to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions, small bump at top corner, jacket is..... More
The Beautiful and Damned.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 449 [1]. The first issue, with no colophon to copyright page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Owner name in ink to fly-leaf, cloth..... More
The Beautiful and Damned.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, second state/printing, with publisher's seal device to copyright page, ads to rear. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 449; [1], blank; [2], ads; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Contents..... More
The Beautiful and Damned.
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1950. [Modern Literature] SECOND UK EDITION, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 447 [3]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Toning to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Jacket toned..... More
The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald, with an Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Being a compilation of novels and shorter pieces, including: The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, Tender is The Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and The Damned, The Rich Boy, Letters and Short Stories, etc.
London: The Bodley Head, 1958-63. [Modern Literature Set] FIRST BODLEY HEAD EDITION. Complete in 6 volumes. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth in pale grey/cream dust-jackets printed in black and red. Some minor dustiness. Both the books and jackets are in clean, fresh condition without the often-seen toning to the spines. A...... More
Tales of The Jazz Age (Includes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).
Toronto: Copp Clark Company, printed in the U.S.A. for Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, Canadian Issue, with Scribner's seal and erroneous text 'Published September, 1902' on copyright page. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.318. Publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, fore-edge untrimmed. Internally..... More
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Tales of The Jazz Age. [The Curious Case of Benjamin Button].
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, an early printing with Scribner's seal and 'Published September, 1922' on copyright page, but lacking 'an' for 'and', p.232. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 317 [5]. Publisher's dark green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and blind..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
The Great Gatsby. Tender is the Night. Film synopsis.
No place (UK), 1962. [Film promotion] Two original synopses for films based on novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sole printings. 21 x 26cm. Each being a two-page flyer providing cast, credits and film story. Printed in colour. Although unmarked, these are from the collection of Joel Finler. One fold to..... More
The Crack-Up.
New York, NY: New Directions Books, [c.1947]. [Literary collection] FIRST EDITION, later printing (one of four indistinguishable reprints from 1945-47). Title page in black, with later issue binding of full tan cloth. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[ii]; 347; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcovers, top edge tinted brown, in dust-jacket priced $3.50..... More
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