Search results for: 'FITZGERALD, F. Scott'
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald.London : 1958-63
First editions, first impressions, of the only collected edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald ever printed. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 134165
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald.London : 1958-63
First editions, first impressions, of the only collected edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald ever printed. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138505
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank to his sometime lover, Margaret Case Harriman, "For Margaret Harriman, who has inspired all my books this tale of our life together in Switzerland, France & U.S.S.R. from Her Chattel F. Scott Fitzgerald July 1935", together with a line clipped from a pencilled... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 125792
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Typed letter signed ("Scott" in ink) to Gilbert Seldes.Baltimore : 1934
Seldes gave Tender Is the Night a rave review in the New York Evening Journal on the day of publication, 12 April 1934. Fitzgerald writes two weeks later to thank him: " I never had any doubt after the weeks and months of half-sleepless work on the thing that it had some special merit and value but it is so nice to see an appreciation of it so early... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 124321
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. "I Didn't Get Over", two draft manuscripts and typescripts, with holograph corrections, for the short story.[Asheville, NC : 1936]
Two original drafts, the first draft and the second and final draft, for Fitzgerald's short story "I Didn't Get Over", written in summer 1936 and published in Esquire magazine that October.
The most noticeable differences between the two drafts are at the beginning and end of the piece. The title is slightly changed: in the first draft, it is... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 100917
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Typed letter signed ("Scott" in pencil) to Gilbert Seldes in New York.1934
A fine and longish letter in which Fitzgerald discusses Seldes's edition of Ring Lardner, a possible evening of one-act plays, and reviews of Tender Is the Night: "Just read the Lardner collection First and Last. At first I was disappointed because I had expected there would be enough stuff for an omnibus and I still feel that it could have stood more... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 44748
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.New York : 1920
The "Author's Apology" edition, signed by the author; first edition, third printing, prepared for distribution to American Booksellers Association, with a tipped-in leaf entitled "Author's Apology" signed by Fitzgerald, "Sincerely, Scott Fitzgerald". Issued the same month as the first, the third printing included an unknown number of copies prepared... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 111821
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(FITZGERALD, F. Scott.) GURGANUS, Allan. Sacrificial Couples and the Splendor of our Failures: Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald.Asheville : 1999
Signed limited edition. One of 26 lettered copies bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery, of which this is Letter F, from a total edition of 276 copies signed by the author. "When I was young, the Fitzgeralds seemed even younger. Did any couple ever start wilder or - by forty - end sadder?" Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 93486
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Compliments & luck to Whitney Darrow from F Scott Fitzgerald April 2nd 1920 New York City". The inscription is in two parts, Fitzgerald having apparently signed and dated the copy first, before adding the salutation to the recipient above. The recipient... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 124266
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. One page ALS, beginning "The check that fell out of my mail this morning...."[c.1930-31]
Fitzgerald writes to Gilbert Seldes from Switzerland, where Zelda was being treated at a clinic. Undated, 1930-1931. Fitzgerald thanks him for a check, "...just emerging in company with Zelda from the biggest muddle we ever got into...Zelda is so near well that its now a question of a few weeks - but she had a damn narrow escape from permanent neurasthenia... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 44744
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 46290
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, first issue, with pp. 349-352 in uncorrected first state. The fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published in his lifetime was published 20 March 1935 in an edition of 5,100 copies. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 49478
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable or from President to Postman.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 43653
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men.1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 62672
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This is a superb copy of Fitzgerald's magnificent yet maligned follow-up to The Great Gatsby. It is one of 19 copies specially signed by the author for the booksellers Hochschild, Kohn & Co. of Baltimore, with their ticket on the rear pastedown.... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 136034
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald's fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 131046
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men.New York : 1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 46292
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Vegetable or from President to Postman.New York : 1923
First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's only stage play, a political satire about a postman who dreams of becoming president of the United States and succeeds. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 36238
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned.New York : 1922
First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket with the title in outline on the front panel. This is Fitzgerald's second novel; uncommon in the first issue dust jacket. Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 50447
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.New York : 1925
First edition, first printing, first state of the text: with "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, "away" on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Learn More£3,950.00Stock Code: 133668
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.New York : 1925
First edition, first printing, first state of the text: with "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, "away" on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 134260
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(PENGUIN CLASSICS.) FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.London : 2006
Limited edition, number 658 of 1,000 copies, the binding designed by filmmaker and photographer Sam Taylor-Wood. To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Penguin Classics the firm commissioned five prominent artists to design bindings for limited runs of influential books previously published in the series. Tender is the Night was first... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 134833
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(KENNEDY, John F.) The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts.c.1945-63
The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts spans the statesman's political career up to the presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as president in the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice presidency.
David... Learn More£375,000.00Stock Code: 120955
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(HAMMETT, Dashiell.) RASCOE, Burton and Groff Conklin. The Smart Set Anthology of World Famous Authors.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, which contains the first appearance for two Dashiell Hammett short stories, "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" and "Green Elephant". The anthology also includes pieces from F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Jim Tully and many others. Learn More£285.00Stock Code: 105283
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[HOFF, Harry Summerfield.] COOPER, William. Scenes from a Provincial Life.London : 1950
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Arthur Mizener, author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife: "Love to Rosemary & Arthur. Harry, 7.iv.58." With their bookplate to the front pastedown. This is the third impression (issued the same year as the first). Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 112221
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Screwjack.Santa Barbara, California : 1991
First edition, signed limited issue, this an out-of-series copy inscribed in calligraphic lettering below the limitation "Nick Beck's copy". Screwjack was printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies signed by the author. A short story collection comprising "Mescalito" (chronicling Thompson's first mescaline experience), "Death... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 139297
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GOURMONT, Remy de. Lettres à l'Amazone.Paris : 30 March 1914
First edition, first printing, copy 112 of 112 copies on papier vergé chartreuse, from an edition of 1,075 copies in total. This copy, with the original chartreuse wrappers bound in, has been handsomely bound by Cochard. Gourmont's "Letters to the Amazon" are the result of the symbolist poet, who had been stricken and disfigured by lupus vulgaris,... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 117966
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GERSHWIN, George. Warm one-page typed letter signed to noted publisher and editor Donald S. Friede.New York : 1927
Appealing, highly characteristic letter evoking Gershwin's easy-going sociability. Writing to Friede - at the time vice-president at Boni & Liveright, later cofounder of Covici-Friede, publishers of Radclyffe Hall, Wyndham Lewis, Nathaniel West, and Steinbeck, later still husband of M. F. K. Fisher - Gershwin regrets that due to an absence from New... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130229
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WARREN, Robert Penn. Flood. A Romance of Our Time.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Arthur and Rosemary, warmest regards, Robert. Fairfield, April 5, 1964." Arthur Mizener was renowned for writing the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 94333
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[HOFF, Harry Summerfield.] COOPER, William. Disquiet and Peace.London : 1956
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With love to Rosemary & Arthur Mizener. London 1956 - come back again! William Cooper." Arthur Mizener was the author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 112186
