(THE SMART SET) Group of 3 volumes

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(THE SMART SET.) Group of 3 volumes. 8vo, original bindings. New York, vd

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The Smart Set. Vol 61, No. 3. Contains Mr. Icky (a one-act play) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. March 1920 Rascoe, Burton. Smart Set History. First Edition, first issue. Thin 8vo, blue wrappers, spine browned and separating but professionally repaired. With an inscription on title-page by Rascoe: "This is a first edition and a true copy of a now rare pamphlet. A paragraph was cut out for the Smart Set Anthology under threat of libel suit by Knopf." He is referring to page 33 where a paragraph concerning Mencken and Dreiser's break over the latter refusing to contribute to a fund to save the publication The American Mercury. It was excised from later printings. New York, 1934 The Smart Set Anthology. Edited by Rascoe and Groff Conklin. First Edition. New York, (1934).