The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1st Edition 1st Printing 1922

Description: First Printing (without Scribner's logo on copyright page), one of 20,600 copies in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine which remains bright and blind embossing on the front board. This is the very uncommon first edition with "Published March, 1922" and "Printed At The Scribner Press, New York, U.S.A." on the copyright page. 449 pages of text. "Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous success, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife Zelda -- from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, The Beautiful and the Damned depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in history, a world Fitzgerald saw with clear eyes...One of his best known works, Gertrude Stein correctly predicted it 'will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten'" (Wolff). Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine which remains bright and blind embossing on the front board. Some of the cloth on the boards is torn. The cloth at the corners of the head of the spine is lightly rubbed and the first page has stains at the upper top of page. Previous owners ink name to front endpaper, spine ends gently nudged, light wear to extremities, with a few faint scuffs and rubbed spots to covers. The front and back cover of the book is slightly loose (see photos) but still holding to the binding.

Price: 325 USD

Location: Charleston, South Carolina

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