New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. Second Edition. The fourth and final book of short stories published during Fitzgerald's lifetime, originally published in 1935 with a single printing of 5,100 copies. Among the 18 stories collected are some of Fitzgerald's finest short fiction, including "The Freshest Boy," "Crazy Sunday," "First..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Second UK edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, with a newly-designed dustjacket by George Woodman. Basis for Henry King's 1962 film adaptation, starring Jason Robards, Jennifer Joans, and Joan Fontaine. Bruccoli A14.4; Connolly 100. Octavo (19cm); light gray cloth-covered boards, with..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. Early UK printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, centered around the lives of young socialites in post-World War I New York. Both the first and second UK printings of This Side of Paradise vary "unauthoritatively from the first Scribner's printing of the novel..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Octavo (19cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-269,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, faint foxing to cloth and text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 8s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, a little edgeworn and..... More
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1920 [but 1923]. Fitzgerald's first novel, an examination of the lives of well-to-do youth before and after World War I, showing "sensitive and intelligent young people reacting to new sex customs, new literary ideas, and prosperity" (Coan, America in Fiction, p.115). Bruccoli A5.1.n. Fifteenth Printing..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Fitzgerald's first novel, an examination of the lives of well-to-do youth before and after World War I, showing "sensitive and intelligent young people reacting to new sex customs, new literary ideas, and prosperity" (Coan, America in Fiction, p.115). Bruccoli A5.1.a. First Printing..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. First Printing, one of 7,650 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); full hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; [viii],145,[1]+[2]pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else a fresh..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Revised Edition. An elusive edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, a completely re-set edition incorporating the author's final version of the text, as well as the first appearance of Malcolm Cowley's powerful introduction. Bruccoli notes the first and second states totalled 5,075 copies, though the..... More
Paris: Simon Kra, 1926. Gatsby Le Magnifique was the first translation of any Fitzgerald novel into a foreign language. The task of translation was assumed by Peruvian author and translator Victor Llona (1886-1953), who began working on it in the fall of 1925. Llona, who grew up in Paris, quickly..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1964. First French Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 47 numbered copies printed on Lafuma-Navarre paper, this being copy no.26. Octavo (21.5cm); original printed wrappers; [9],10-290,[6]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine, with the signatures uncut. In the original glassine overlay, lightly worn and creased along the lower..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 47 numbered copies printed on Lafuma-Navarre paper, this being copy no.26. Octavo (21.5cm); original printed wrappers; [9],10-288,[4]pp. Hint of sunning to spine and upper edge of front wrapper, else Fine, with the signatures uncut. In the original glassine overlay, with..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition Thus. A collection of 14 uncollected short stories and 6 uncollected essays. Contents are identical to the 1957 edition published by Princeton University, though the scrapbook photos are omitted. Bruccoli A22.1.b. First Printing, with A.2-58 code on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); brown..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Second American Edition. First Printing, with "A-6.59" code on copyright page. Octavo (20.75cm); teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-189,[3]pp. A single, faint adhesive shadow on front and rear endpaper, some rubbing along the center of the front joint; contents..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-139,[3]pp. Scattered foxing to text..... More
[New York: The New Yorker, 1926]. First Edition. Sharp copy of this humorous volume commissioned by The New Yorker magazine and published the year after its founding, a tongue-in-cheek look at all phases of the magazine's production told in twenty installments, which were originally serialized in the magazine beginning August..... More
Missoula, MT: S.i., 1983. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first letter to Salter, written in response to his appreciation of Ford's Esquire essay "The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald" (December 1, 1983). Ford expresses his appreciation of the letter, mentioning "I didn't think I'd done much for the Faulkner-Hemingway-Fitzgerald canon..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Collection of poems, accompanied by the author's watercolors and ink drawings. Morrow & Cooney 85b. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, each with a mounted watercolor frontispiece (this being copy no.6). Quarto (27.75cm); yellow ribbed cloth, with..... More
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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966. First Editions. The fifth and seventh publications of John Martin's Black Sparrow Press, printing two poems by southern California poet Michael Forrest, who was the second author (after Charles Bukowski) published by the press. Martin relayed the following to us, when we queried him..... More
Lawrence, KS: Abington Book Shop, 1966. First Edition. Issue 7 of John Fowler's literary magazine, notable for featuring the first commercially published pieces of S. Clay Wilson's artwork. Wilson, along with Robert Crumb and Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez, was an influential pioneer in the underground comix movement beginning in the 1960's..... More
Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. The National Book Award-winning author's first book, a one-act play co-written with classmate Kathy Siebert for a non-traditional high school physics class when Franzen was just 17 years old. "The anachronistic plot centers on an attempt by Russian spies to kidnap..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2011. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the English author's psychological novel, taking place between the present day and World War II. Octavo (22.75cm); full hunter green leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [x],261,[3]pp. A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First Edition. A novel centered around the social drama which unfolds in an upstate New York town during the Civil War. The protagonist, Abner Beech, is a Northerner opposed to the invasion of the South; he is branded a "copperhead" by his abolitionist neighbors..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 751 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; 3/4 jade green paper-covered boards over quarter brown cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine and decorations gilt-stamped on front panel; original publisher's paper-covered slipcase; 63pp..... More
Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1962. First Edition. An early novel by the highy-regarded Mexican author and a seminal work in the Latin American Boom, centered around a corrupt politician and soldier, lying on his deathbed and recalling the many events which shaped his life, from the Mexican Revolution to..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1968. First American Edition. Basis for the well-received 1999 film "El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba," starring Salma Hayek; the film was nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1999. The 1982 Nobel Prize winner's first book in English, particularly desirable as a...... More