Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 42

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Beautiful and Damned. 8vo, blue cloth stamped in red, light rubbing to edges; private lending library rubber stamp on verso of front free endpaper; slight browning to endpapers; owner's dust jacket plain but for a beautifully calligraphed spine label. London: Collins, (1922)

Additional Details

First Edition of the scarce British Edition. Only 899 copies were sold in Britain, while an additional 355 copies were sold abroad, of which this is one. The UK edition differs from the US edition in some 700 readings of which 82 are substantive; additionally, 134 lines are omitted from the Collins text. Bruccoli, A 8.2.a.