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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All the Sad Young Men
F. Scott Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
‘Typical Sad Young Men’: presentation copy of the first edition, first printing, in the first state dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author: ‘W.L. Shelton / with Best Wishes / F Scott Fitzgerald’ and accompanied by 11 stick-figure drawings.
Fitzgerald's third collection of stories was published hot on the heels of The Great Gatsby. ‘The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of 'The Great Gatsby' of last Spring. A novel so widely praised — by people whose recognition counts — is stiff competition. It is even something of a problem for a reviewer to find new and different words to properly grace the occasion. It must be said that the collection as a whole is not sustained to the high excellence of 'The Great Gatsby,' but it has stories of fine insight and finished craft […] This book is a big advance over his previous stories. It distinctly marks a transition’ (The New York Times, March 7, 1926). Bruccoli A13.1.a.
Octavo. (Mild browning and offsetting to endpapers.) Original linen-grain green cloth, titled in blind to front board, spine lettered in gilt (two trivial indentations to cloth on upper board, front hinge cracking at half-title); original pictorial dust-jacket with the woman’s lips unbattered (spine a little darkened, spine ends faintly creased with tiny nick at head); custom chemise and slipcase.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
‘Typical Sad Young Men’: presentation copy of the first edition, first printing, in the first state dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author: ‘W.L. Shelton / with Best Wishes / F Scott Fitzgerald’ and accompanied by 11 stick-figure drawings.
Fitzgerald's third collection of stories was published hot on the heels of The Great Gatsby. ‘The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of 'The Great Gatsby' of last Spring. A novel so widely praised — by people whose recognition counts — is stiff competition. It is even something of a problem for a reviewer to find new and different words to properly grace the occasion. It must be said that the collection as a whole is not sustained to the high excellence of 'The Great Gatsby,' but it has stories of fine insight and finished craft […] This book is a big advance over his previous stories. It distinctly marks a transition’ (The New York Times, March 7, 1926). Bruccoli A13.1.a.
Octavo. (Mild browning and offsetting to endpapers.) Original linen-grain green cloth, titled in blind to front board, spine lettered in gilt (two trivial indentations to cloth on upper board, front hinge cracking at half-title); original pictorial dust-jacket with the woman’s lips unbattered (spine a little darkened, spine ends faintly creased with tiny nick at head); custom chemise and slipcase.