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SHEILAH GRAHAM'S COPY FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. 8vo, original dark green cloth, front cover blind-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, small soil marks to rear cover; front hinge overopened; facsimile jacket, slipcase. New York: Scribner's, 1925
first edition, first issue, with a fine association. sheilah graham's copy, signed by her on the front flyleaf. British-born Sheilah Graham, one of the most influential gossip columnists in Hollywood, is remembered today as the last lover of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, their three-year relationship (described in her book Beloved Infidel) beginning while he was still married to his wife Zelda, who was institutionalized in an asylum. In a letter from May 1940 to S.J. Perelman, Fitzgerald invited him to visit, promising "Sheilah will be with me, just as merry as can be, to greet you on the porch with a julep" (Letters, Turnbull, ed., 1963, p. 600). Little more than six months later it was Graham who would find Fitzgerald at home dead of a heart attack. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48.
