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ALL APOLOGIES FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. This Side of Paradise. 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gold and blind, very slightly shaken, few light surface stains, small spots of paint residue on lower boards and one spot at outer bottom edges; signatures and textblock still sound. New York, 1920
first edition, third printing, signed by fitzgerald and one of approximately 500 copies of this printing with "The Author's Apology" leaf tipped-in. Prepared for a meeting of the American Booksellers Association, the printed apology reads in part: "My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward... So, gentlemen, consider all the cocktails mentioned in this book drunk by me as a toast to the American Booksellers Association." Below this is signed "Sincerely F. Scott Fitzgerald." Bruccoli A5.I.c.
