Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-up. - With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters. Edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, [New York], 1947.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First English issue of American copies, with label for British distrubtion opposite title-page. 347pp. 8vo. BruccoliA19,I.b Cloth. Fine in quite chipped dustjacket with loss to spine First English issue of American copies, with label for British distrubtion opposite title-page.

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. The Crack-Up. With other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters / Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos/ And Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson.. London & New York, New Directions (1947)., 1947.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First UK edition (Second issue US edition, with the plain black-lettered title-page and a different cloth binding). Hardcover. Fore-edge moderately foxed, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket (unclipped) slightly darkened on the spine and with a few tiny processionally closed tears. This is the scarce British imprint of the US edition (which had two issues, published without a date in 1945). This British edition has a publisher's label on the verso of the half-title page stating: This is a New Directions Book/distributed/throughout the British Empire/ from/7 Crown Passage, Pall Mall/London S.W.1. The US $ price on the front flap of the jacket has a small sticker with the British price (17'6) stuck over it. Bruccoli A20.1.

Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The crack-up . with other uncollected pieces, note-books, and unpublished letters. Together with letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos. New Directions, n.d., [New York], 1947.

Price: US$343.75 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of four indistinguishable reprintings (1945-47), but this the uncommon British issue, with the pasted slip on verso of the half-title reading: "This is a New Directions Book distributed throughout the British Empire from 7 Crown Passage, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1," 8vo, pp. 347; hinges cracked, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, small red ink annotation on rear endpaper, otherwise very good in a slightly worn dust-jacket with several small marginal tears and creases. Bruccoli A20.1.d who apparently had not seen a copy.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.