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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 lightly rubbed and handled; very good indeed. 'The Beautiful and the Damned' follows the decadent, jazz age couple, Anthony and Gloria. Although their first three years of marriage are filled with excitement and joy, this soon evaporates as they begin to be repulsed by each others' hedonistic identities. Item #64144
Bruccoli. Listed in Modern Library's Top 100 Novels [1998].
Price: £500.00
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