Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Beautiful and Damned. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped front cover and gilt spine title, minor soiling; shaken, front and rear joints cracked with textblock separating but intact for that; original second issue dust jacket with the title of the book on the front cover in black, few closed tears, edgewear, light chipping with a few letters affected at head of spine panel, overall light rubbing, unclipped; discreet bookseller's ticken to front pastedown. New York: Scribner's, 1922

Additional Details

first edition, first printing without scribner's seal on copyright page, in unrestored second issue dust jacket. Fitzgerald's second novel. Bruccoli A 8.I.a.