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FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. This Side of Paradise.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: 305 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition. Front free endpaper lacking with a tiny loss to the upper corner of the front pastedown; rear (inner) hinge split but underlying structure sound; top edge of the text block darkened; else a very good copy with most of the gold lettering on the spine present. There is some minor scuffing to the extremities of the spine, mostly at the bottom. Author's first book. Signed and inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "My Dear Friend Chad Davis" on the half-title page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, third printing SIGNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the apology page. A wonderful copy. The book is bound in the publisher's green cloth with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. This Side of Paradise.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Description: 305 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth. Early edition; sixth printing, July, 1920. Very good or better, with light use to extremities of the spine. The gold is quite bright and completely legible. Author's first book. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald for Edward Everett Horton, with a full-page inscription, including "the later Ring Lardner once said of Irwin Cobb that he was 'very fond of books, of which he has a complete set'." Edward Everett Horton, a Hollywood actor, was Fitzgerald's landlord in the late 1930s in Encino, California.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, third printing SIGNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the glossy leaf bearing "The Author's Apology." A beautiful copy. According to the Fitzgerald Bibliography by Bruccoli, "500 copies of the third printing have a special tipped-in glossy leaf bearing "The Author's Apology" each signed by Fitzgerald. These copies were prepared for a meeting of the American Booksellers Association." The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth and is in amazing shape. The gold lettering on the spine is present, and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The binding is tight and square with NO cocking. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy F. Scott Fitzgerald First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.