Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 22,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
INSCRIBED FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. All the Sad Young Men. 8vo, original dark green cloth; endpapers cracked at the rear hinge; pictorial dust jacket by Cleonike, slightly frayed at head of spine, one-inch faint whitish stain to lower front panel. New York: Scribner's, 1926

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first edition. inscribed and signed in year of publication: "For Bob Ingalls, In memory of a summer on the Baltic Sea from His Faithfully, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Juan-les-Pins 1926." The facetious statement refers to the Fitzgeralds' stay at Juan-les-Pins along the Riviera from March through December that year. All the Sad Young Men was published at the end of February and was his third collection of stories. Ex-collection Maurice F. Neville; R. J. Ingalls, Jr. (with his signature at top of dedication page). Bruccoli A12.I.a.