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" This Side of Paradise
FITZGERALD, F. Scott
Price: US$ 13200.00
Book Description: 1920, 1920. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Octavo, original green cloth. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $13,200. First edition, third printing (issued the same month as the first, and the only printing with Fitzgerald's signature) of Fitzgerald's first novel, one of approximately 500 copies with the tipped-in "Author's Apology" leaf boldly signed in pen, "Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald." Third printing (the only issued with the tipped-in "Apology"), published in the same month as the first. Prepared for an American Booksellers Association convention, Fitzgerald's signed "Apology" reads: "I don't want to talk about myself because I'll admit I did that somewhat in this book. In fact, to write it took three months; to conceive it—three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life. The idea of writing it came on the first of last July: it was a substitute form of dissipation. 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. May, 1920." Contrary to his claim, Fitzgerald began writing the novel in 1917, revising it several times until Scribner's accepted it for publication in 1919. Blank front free endpaper excised. Without rare original dust jacket. Bruccoli A5.I.c. Owner signature. Only lightest scattered foxing to preliminary and final leaves, light wear to cloth. An extremely good copy.
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