Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Beautiful and Damned. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, gilt very bright; original dust-jacket with W.E. Hill illustration; several old cellotape reinforcements and repairs on recto and verso, but lettering largely unaffected save for portion of last word of title on upper rear panel (with small rectangular loss) and portion of "The" on spine panel, moderate rubbing, shallow oval abrasion to center of spine panel; narrow tidemarks on endpapers, ownership signature. New York: Scribner's, 1922

Additional Details

first edition, first printing without Scribner's seal on copyright page, title on jacket front panel outlined in black. A clean, square copy in scarce first issue dust jacket. Fitzgerald's second novel. Bruccoli A8.1.a.