Jun 20, 2019 - Sale 2514

Sale 2514 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CHARLES [HENRI] FORD (1908-2002) & PARKER TYLER (1904-1974)


The Young and Evil.

8vo, original tan wrappers printed in red, moderately toned and brittle, slightly cocked, gentle splits along spine and joints. Paris: Obelisk Press, (1933).

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first trade edition of a rare and fragile book.Djuna Barnes said of this novel, "never, to my knowledge, has a certain type of homosexual been so `fixed' on paper." Gertrude Stein commented that the work "creates this generation as This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald created his generation. It is a good thing, whatever the generation is, to be the first to create it in a novel."