Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Pat Hobby Stories. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich. 8vo, blue cloth, edges lightly rubbed; dust jacket, only minor rubbing to spine ends and tips. New York, (1962)

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first edition. inscribed and signed by gingrich to New York advertising executive H. Paul Warwick. Fitzgerald was in desperate financial condition while trying to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1930s and `40s. Gingrich proved his salvation by agreeing to publish any story sent to him, albeit for a meager fee. Despite its print run of 8,000, a scarce title Signed.