ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Item #6637
First Printing, earliest state of the text, with clear, unbattered type on pages 38, 90, and 248. Octavo (19.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titling stamped in gilt on the spine and in blind on the front panel; dustjacket; [viii],267,[1]pp. Tiny tear at crown, thin crack to gutter at half-title page, with faint foxing to text edges; Near Fine, with the cloth clean and unspoiled, and the gilt titling bright and unrubbed. Later state of the dustjacket, with the lips battered on front panel; unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edgeworn, with sunning to spine and panels, a few tiny nicks and small tears, and a few small, faint splash marks to lower spine and front panel; unrestored; Very Good+. Fitzgerald's well-received third collection of short fiction, gathering nine stories, and issued a year after Gatsby's release with a modest first printing of 10,100 copies. Bruccoli A13.I.a.
Price: $3,750.00