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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. THE PORTABLE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Viking Press, New York, 1945.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Selected by Dorothy Parker. Introduction by John O'Hara. 16mo. Orange cloth, with black spine lettering. 835 pages. [Bruccoli AA1] Both hinges starting. Slight wear to spine ends. Name on Front Free End Paper. No marks to text. Lacking the dust-jacket. The first printing, published September, 1945.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo. Hardcover. Orange cloth. 835pp. Very good in chipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this edition with same date on title-page & copyright page.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald. Viking Press, 1945.
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald 1945, 1st edition 2nd printing, published by Viking Press "some cloth rubbing, otherwise light wear, name inside otherwise clean and tight and very good inside"
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.36 + shipping
Description: orig. cloth binding 8° good condition xix, 835 pages S. The Viking Portable Library
Seller: Johann Peter Hebel Antiquariat, Lörrach, Germany
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. THE PORTABLE. VIKING Press, 1945.
Price: US$39.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60062827: 1945. In-16. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Intérieur frais. 835 pages. Tranche bleue. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The portable F. Scott Fitzgerald. Viking Pr, 1945.
Price: US$41.87 + shipping
Description: 2nd printing, 1945. Thin damp stain to page edges and a little faint staining on boards. Endpapers a little browned. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Cloth worn. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xix, 835p., top and bottom of spine fraying., (The Viking Portable Library)
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.5", orange cloth hardcover with no dust jacket, xix, [3], 835 pp. First printing, part of the Viking Portable Library. Selected by Dorothy Parker, with a introduction by John O'Hara. About very good with soiling, wear and bumping to covers, owner inscription to front endpaper.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The uncommon 1st Printing of the collection. Mild wear, else a clean copy of the Book in an edgeworn jacket with some verso tape repair, considerable dust to the front panel, some jacket material color stock scraped off. Jacket about Very Good minus. Includes two novels (The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night) , and nine short stories (Absolution, The Baby Party, The Rich Boy, May Day, The Cut-Glass Bowl, The Offshore Pirate, The Freshest Boy, Crazy Sunday, Babylon Revisited). With an introduction by John O'Hara. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, hardcover, has various degrees of fading to the edge treatments with the head nearly bleached, as well as a lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and short creasing to the upper fore corner of about 25 pages with some slighter creasing to the surrounding pages. Otherwise, this is a solid, Near Very Good copy in an unclipped, Good only dust jacket, which has moderate chips and some creased tears to the spine ends and corners, which partially obscure the "The" & "F." of the title on the spine, as well as rubbing to the covers and spine, an area of peeling to the spine, wear with short chips and tears to the edges, and some small chips and cross creases to the folds. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing (stated September 1945) Includes the complete text of 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night' and a selection of nine of his short stories. Compiled by his friend Dorothy Parker and with an introduction by John O'Hara. At the time this was published, Fitzgerald was once again just beginning to be recognized as a major American writer. Viking Portable Library #14. xix, 835 pp. Small format. Very good in orange cloth (front edge slightly bumped) in good only example of the fragile dust jacket. (overall edgewear to dj, short tear to side of spine of dj, chipping to top of dj, price of 2.00 still present, lists through #15 on back cover)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.5", orange cloth hardcover with blue dust jacket, xix, [3], 835 pp. Second printing, part of the Viking Portable Library. Selected by Dorothy Parker, with a introduction by John O'Hara. Very good with rubbing to dust jacket.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear, minor bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket shows obvious chipping to edges and spine ends. States Published by The Viking Press September 1945. ; Viking Portable Library; Vol. 14
Seller: Dan Glaeser Books, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Second Printing. Small octavo, 835 pages. Selected by Dorothy Parker and introduction by John O'Hara. Scarce portable edition of The Great Gatsby and collection that instigated the revival of Fitzgerald's work. Also includes Tender is the Night, and nine short stories. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chips at spine ends.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this collection. *Bruccoli* AA1 issued as a volume in the series Viking Portable Library. Selected by Dorothy Parker. Introduction by John O'Hara. Covers have few spots of faint soiling, with light wear at tips of spine, endpapers are lightly tanned, else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Author May Sarton's copy with her ink signature and inscription on front flyleaf dated in the year of publication listing universities for her lecture tour: "May Sarton. Oct. '45. Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Iowa, Beloit, Cornell [and two others]."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.