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Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, and the first of three musicals for which the future Great Gatsby author wrote the lyrics of while a student at Princeton University. Bound in publisher's original printed stiff wraps with orange cloth spine. Very Good with chipping and soiling to front cover, short tear to front cover under cloth spine and cloth lifted there as well. Bruccoli A2.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!. The John Church Company, 1914.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A very early Fitzgerald work, his first writing for a production at the Princeton University Triangle Club. A very good to near fine example. The boards bright and crisp with only slight shelf and handling wear. A tiny crack at the bottom of the rear board. A tear to the front hinge, but still a square and solidly intact volume. The copyright notice hand corrected on page 5, as it was with most copies. The contents fine, appearing mostly unread. Laid in is an annotated newspaper clipping advertising the Triangle Club's "Christmas Trip" tour of six cities to perform the show. A beautiful and unrestored example of this scarce title. Though he was socially and intellectually ambitious at Princeton, Fitzgerald was a largely indifferent student from the start. He joined the Triangle Club after he was cut from the football team his freshman year. Fitzgerald would write the lyrics for three shows at the club, but was not allowed to performed in any of them as his poor grades prohibited him from partaking in extracurricular activities. He did not graduate with the class of 17, and instead left Princeton to join the army and finish writing This Side of Paradise.
Seller: Canton Books, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
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Description: 91 pp. Folio, original printed cloth-backed wrappers. First edition. Old ink ownership inscription; some light soiling to wrappers.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Princeton Triangle Club show, for which Fitzgerald wrote all lyrics. Fitzgerald's first book---preceded This Side of Paradise. Music by D. D. Griffin, A. L. Booth, and P. B. Dickey. Grey stiff cardboard paper wraps, spine covered in orange cloth, with orange and black illustration. Light dirt smudging on cover and slight bumping and chipping of edges, Bruccoli A4.
Seller: Sumter Books (Manly, Inc.), Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT.. Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi. Cincinnati: John Church Co., 1914, 1914.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of this musical score; with lyrics by Fitzgerald. Bruccoli A2; preceded only by a script printed for the cast. Publisher's printed stiff wrappers with a cloth spine; cover spotting; waterstain on the back cover; owner's inscription; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.