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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 145 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth (lacking dust jacket). First edition. Ex-circulating library copy, with printed label, stamps, and ms. notes on pastedown; first few leaves hole-punched; corners bumped; light use to cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with blind stamped title and author on front cover.Gilt spine lettering a little dull. Front flyleaf, first end paper, and half title page with a half inch fore edge tear, end paper and half title also have a light crease radiating from tear. Page 52/3 with a small area of toning from a laid in piece of paper. 2 pages of ads at back. Contents clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: weight: 0.7 lb. Very good, spine title faded as usual, upper corner lightly bumped, ink name to pastedown, otherwise tight and unmarked. 19.5x13.5 cm. 145 pp. + 2 pp. ads. Publisher's green cloth, blind cover title, faded gilt spine title.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Original green cloth, spine titles faded, stamped title on cover. Ownership bookplate on front pastedown. Overall very good. One of 7600 copies.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Lacking dust jacket. Fading and small soil mark to spine. Mild edgewear to covers. Faint scuffs to rear cover. Mild toning to leaves. VG/---.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1923. 145pp+2pp ads. 1st edition. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and gilt worn from spine. Internally, previous owners bookplate to inside front board and date inked to top of 1st free end-page; pages slightly age-toned, but otherwise a very good, clean copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very presentable copy of the 1923 1st edition. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its deep-green cloth, with lightly-shaded gilt-titling along the spine. One tiny spot at the spine, otherwise clean as could be. And internally all-but-pristine, with no writing or markings of any kind. Lacking its original dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition with "Published April, 1923" on copyright page. A play in 3 acts. 145 pp. plus 2pp. ads at back. A little foxing at very front and very back. Dark green mesh cloth blindstamped on front and stamped in orange on spine. The littlest wear at the corners. Flyleaf torn out. Hinges strong, tight, clean. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Ads at back uncut. Ex-lib but only indication of this is a library stamp on page 49 and the number 5013 on copyright page. Cloth has a clear sealer type coating on front, back and spine giving the green cloth a glossy, black appearance otherwise in good condition. Smallest of all trade printings - 7650 copies. no jacket. Rare.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 7650 copies printed. About Fine. No jacket; 7.6 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches; 145 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with very faded gilt text on the spine and with blind text embossing of the title and the author's name on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with two, 1/16th closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine and with light rubbing to the cloth at the heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. There is the bold stamp of "Property of Famous Players - Lasky Library" on both the front paste down and the first free end page as well on the last free end page and the last paste down; otherwise, the contents are clean and tight. Containing 145 pages of text followed by two pages of ads and an unopened leaf. I do not consider this an ex-libary copy but simply a copy owned by a stage company. (Bruccoli, A 10.I.a)
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 145 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth (lacking dust jacket). First edition. An unworn copy, but the gold lettering on the spine is rubbed and dimmed.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Elegant Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the case is finished in black cloth & red Nuba® gilt stamped spine title piece, 'Sculpted' 'figures' design on the side after the DJ's comical illustration. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Spine lettering a little dull, else about fine lacking the dustwrapper. Fitzgerald's only play.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NODustJacket,woven green cloth, minor bump corner & rub, Published April 1923, Stated 1st edition, first Issue, VG, AS-IS, NOJACKET, TITLE & AUTHOR EMBOSSED ON FRONT BUT GILT IS GONE,Spine Gold gilt lightened, 145 pgs+ ADS, interior light wear Fox
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.54 + shipping
Description: [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed and dulled to spine. Very good. One of 7650 copies published. Bruccoli [A10].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable, or From President to Postman. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
Price: US$281.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, one of 7650 copies (Bruccoli A10.I.a). Lacks scarce jacket. Middle portion of spine faded, minimal diminishment of gilt titles on spine - a common problem with this edition (this copy is better than we usually see), a few small spots on margins of fore edge, ink number on front endpaper, Brentano's bookplate on rear endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 145, [7] pp. 8vo. A play developed from a short story. It was Fitzgerald's only play, and was published two years before The Great Gatsby, which was his most popular work. Scribner printed 7650 copies, but the play was not a commercial success, despite showcasing Fitzgerald's facility with dialogue. Still a must for the serious Fitzgerald collector.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: First edition (not stated but with requisite "Published April, 1923" and Scribner seal upon copyright page per Ahearn). [7], 145, [1], [2] pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Dark green cloth; mottling to spine; some flaking loss to spine's gilt stamping which otherwise remains easily legible. Some toning to text block edges; deckle fore-edge; rear flyleaves uncut at their fore-edges. Slight toning to endpapers; a few spots of minor soiling to leaves. Binding is firm. A very good copy. With unpaged leaf at rear advertising Scribner's other Fitzgerald titles.
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1923.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1923 Scribner's FIRST edition of Fitzgerald's only comedy published in April 1923. With an extremely small printing of 7650 copies these editions grow scarcer every day. This volume is in NF condition. The deep green boards are very clean with deep blind stamps on cover and spine without gilt. The interior is very clean and tight with only a previous owner bookplate on the inside cover. A splendid copy and a rare collectible! **BONUS** Also receive the 1950 Grey Walls First Thus of The Beautiful and the Damned in VG condition/no DJ.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Spine lettering mostly worn away, else a tight and very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. With the bookplate of actress Ruth Gordon and her husband the writer and director Garson Kanin on the front pastedown. Only commercially published play by Fitzgerald.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Only 7,650 cc printed. VG+ in crisp, clean woven green cloth, blind-stamped with title and author on front boards with bright gilt lettering stamped on spine. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Vegetable" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Charles Scribers, NY. 1923 first American edition, first printing. Original binding, with all first issue points, minor rubbing, owner's name on front endpaper, clean copy. Fitzgerald's only stage play, a political satire about a postman who dreams of becoming president of the United States and succeeds.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's, 1923.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Vegetable" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Charles Scribner's, NY. 1923 first American edition first printing. In near fine condition with bookplate to endpaper.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (published, April 1923). Octavo. Original gilt and blindstamped green cloth. Front panel of the color pictorial dust jacket laid down on the front pastedown. Very good. 145 pages + 2 pages advertisements. Bruccoli A10.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribners and Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fitzgerald's only published dramatic work. The first edition, published by Charles Scribners and Sons in 1923. Bound in the dark green textured cloth that Scribners used for all of Fitzgerald's books. A very attractive, unworn copy. Near fine with a few light spots to the top edge and along the fore edge. Dulling to the gold spine lettering.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Description: [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and marbled endpapers, with the original green cloth upper and spine bound in at rear. Paper slightly toned as usual. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. One of 7650 copies published. Bruccoli [A10].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. Fitzgeraldâs original title for this absurdist romantic farce had been Gabrielâs Trombone. He told editor Max Perkins it was âthe best piece of American comedy to date, and undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.â His next book was The Great Gatsby (Berg, Max Perkins, Editor of Genius, 50). Bruccoli A10.1.a.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Copy belonging to Academy Award-winning director William Wellman, with his signature on the front endpaper. Very Good plus overall, lacking the dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label to the rear pastedown. A few small tears to the edges of the advert pages at the rear, else a very presentable copy. Bruccoli A10.1.a.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, one of 7,650 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); full hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; [viii],145,[1]+[2]pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the cloth clean and unspoiled, and the gilt quite bright. A sharp copy of Fitzgerald's only play. Bruccoli A10.1.a.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A nice, near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. THE VEGETABLE. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$1030.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in green cloth. True first edition with the publisher's seal and the words "Published April, 1923" printed on the copyright page. ; Original binding. All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Spine lettering dull, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. For reasons unknown to us, this copy is Inscribed by Harold H. Knerr, probably the foremost illustrator of the Katzenjammer Kids: "With kindest wishes & best wishes from yours sincerely, Harold H. Knerr." Beneath his inscription, Knerr has drawn his two greatest creations, the mischievous Katzenjammer Kids, Hans and Fritz. Originally created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897, and based on the "Max und Moritz" cartoon pranksters and bad boys created by German artist Wilhelm Busch. Knerr took over the cartoon in 1914, after a lawsuit between the Hearst and Pulitzer papers, and continued until his death in 1949, and created the version of the Katzenjammers best known today. A pleasing little inscription drawing connecting the "bad boy" comic icons to the infant terrible of the 1920s literary world. Fitzgerald's only play.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1771.36 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Fitzgerald's only stage play, a political satire about a postman who dreams of becoming president of the United States and succeeds. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, roll to turn-ins, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 145pp, [2pp ads]. Original teal green cloth, title stamped in blind on front cover. Title in gilt on spine, now rubbed away. Stated "Published April, 1923" with Scribner's Seal on copyright page. Solid text block, shallow bump to fore edge of covers, touch of wear to head and tail of spine. Faint stain to spine, slightly visible on rear endpaper. Text remains clean and legible. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original dust jacket, $1.50 retail price listed, with a few small chips and faint soiling. Professionally restored jacket with tissue repairs to edges, folds, and verso. Includes color touch-ups to spine and front panel. The first state jacket, with blurbs for The Beautiful and Damned and Tales of the Jazz Age on the front flap, and ads for the fifth printing of Flappers and Philosophers and the thirteenth printing of This Side of Paradise on the rear flap. (Bruccoli A10.1.a). The Vegetable, Fitzgerald's only play, was the last publication before the release of his magnum opus, The Great Gatsby. The first performance of The Vegetable occurred on November 19, 1923 at the Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, NJ. The show was not well received, with Zelda Fitzgerald later writing that members of the audience were "so obviously bored," and some left during the second act. (Bruccoli, Epic Grandeur, p. 219).
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Fitzgerald's last book published before his masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY which had a print run of 20,870 copies while this book had only 7,650 published. As with the better known GATSBY, this title, Fitzgerald's only published full-length play, also explores the American Dream but here with more comic intent and more pathetic results. The main character, Jerry Frost, strives to be President of the United States, if he is unable to make it as a postman. The quotation Fitzgerald places on the center of the title page sums it up: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has -- he's nothing more or less than a vegetable." Bruccoli A 10.I.a Slight foxing to the endpapers. Fine and bright in a Very Good, unrestored example of the uncommon dustwrapper that has a light stain at the bottom portion of the spine and an inch-deep chip at the top of the front cover obliterating most of the "T" in the word "The"
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$3949.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine first edition copy, green cloth with gilt to spine. This copy is in wonderful condition with very slight bowing of the boards, only visible under scrutiny. Slight offset of jacket to the endpages. The unclipped ($1.50) original jacket has been professionally restored. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5797.18 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's only play, a lovely copy in the rare jacket. Theatre was Fitzgerald's first love and he thought he would make his fortune with The Vegetable, which he considered the funniest play ever written. The adolescent Fitzgerald was a fledgling actor and impresario. He was active in the Princeton Triangle Club as a student, where he enjoyed the admiration and encouragement of his peers. The Louisville Post proclaimed that he "could take his place right now with the brightest writers of witty lyrics in America" (cited in Irwin) for his musical comedy Fie! Fi! Fi-Fi! (1914-15), so with a novel and a short story collection under his belt, Fitzgerald confidently turned his eye to Broadway. The Vegetable was published on 27 April 1923 and premiered in a single preview on 20 November at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The first act went well, but the dream sequence lost the audience and Fitzgerald himself wrote that "I wanted to stop the show and say it was all a mistake but the actors struggled heroically on" (Turnbull, p. 140). During the second intermission, Fitzgerald and his friend Ring Lardner asked the lead actor if he was even going to bother with the final act. When he replied that he was, the pair decided their evening would be better spent in a bar down the street. Bruccoli A10.1a; Andrew Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald, 1962; John T. Urwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: An Almost Theatrical Innocence, 2014. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, a few spots to top edge, bright and fresh; jacket lightly soiled, 11 cm closed tear from head of rear panel expertly repaired, a few chips and short closed tears at edges, vertical crease to front flap, bright and unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. A nice example. Fitzgeraldâs original title for this absurdist romantic farce had been Gabrielâs Trombone. He told editor Max Perkins it was âthe best piece of American comedy to date, and undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.â His next book was The Great Gatsby (Berg, Max Perkins, Editor of Genius, 50). Bruccoli A10.1.a.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's & Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "Published April 1923" and Scribner seal printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has the printed price of $1.50 present on the spine with minor wear to the spine and panels. The book is in wonderful shape. The lettering on the spine is present without the common fading, and the boards are solid with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful book with the scarce ORIGINAL dustjacket. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Vegetable. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1923.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with titles in blind on upper board and in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with spine slightly darkened, lightly worn at ends and with gilt rubbed and faded. Pages toned. Light spotting to front end sheet, and a short crack at the top gutter of the front free endpaper. A lovely copy, signed by the author.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 145 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Tiny gilt leather book label on front pastedown; else a fresh, unworn copy. The gold on the spine is tarnished, and the top edge is very slightly soiled. The dust jacket has a few small chips to the edges.the one at the bottom of the spine affects the "R" and "S" in "Scribners." One of five or six copies of the book signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 145 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Leather book label of John Stuart Groves on the front pastedown; small bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; else an unworn, very good copy with oxidation to the gold on the spine. The dust jacket has some chipping to the edges, affecting the last two letters of "Scribner's" at the bottom. Bright and attractive. Signed on the front free endpaper: "F Scott Fitzgerald."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Mr. Swelwynn (sic)- Here's the new version of the play. Sincerely F. Scott Fitzgerald." The recipient, prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century. An actor, playwright, director and producer on Broadway, he founded a theatrical production company with his brother, Archibald Selwyn, and owned a number of Selwyn Theatres in the United States. He transferred his talents from the stage to motion pictures, and directed a film for which Helen Hayes received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Selwyn co-founded Goldwyn Pictures in 1916. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. An exceptional association. Fitzgeraldâs original title for this absurdist romantic farce had been Gabrielâs Trombone. He told editor Max Perkins it was âthe best piece of American comedy to date, and undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.â His next book was The Great Gatsby (Berg, Max Perkins, Editor of Genius, 50). Bruccoli A10.1.a.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.