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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
细节
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
A presentation copy of the first edition of his first novel, inscribed by Fitzgerald to James H. Douglas, a fellow member of the Princeton Cottage Club: "Under whose beneficent patronage I have spent a useless month, cheered only by seeing him sling pregnant words at impressionable sophomores. F. Scott Fitzgerald (the W.K. author), Cottage Club, Princeton, N.J. March 27th, 1920." This autobiographical novel set at Princeton was an immediate success, securing Fitzgerald's reputation as the voice of his generation. Fitzgerald had come back to live at Princeton specifically for the release of the novel, the "defiant tone [of which] had the same powerful impact on rebellious postwar youth as Salinger's Catcher in the Rye did in 1951, and it became a Bible and guidebook as the Twenties began to roar " (Meyers, p.56). Bruccoli A5.1.a; see Meyers, Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography.
Octavo (192 x 126mm). Original blue cloth (hinges neatly strengthened); slipcase. Provenance: James H. Douglas (1899-1988, Secretary of the US Air Force; inscription) – Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 108.
A presentation copy of the first edition of his first novel, inscribed by Fitzgerald to James H. Douglas, a fellow member of the Princeton Cottage Club: "Under whose beneficent patronage I have spent a useless month, cheered only by seeing him sling pregnant words at impressionable sophomores. F. Scott Fitzgerald (the W.K. author), Cottage Club, Princeton, N.J. March 27th, 1920." This autobiographical novel set at Princeton was an immediate success, securing Fitzgerald's reputation as the voice of his generation. Fitzgerald had come back to live at Princeton specifically for the release of the novel, the "defiant tone [of which] had the same powerful impact on rebellious postwar youth as Salinger's Catcher in the Rye did in 1951, and it became a Bible and guidebook as the Twenties began to roar " (Meyers, p.56). Bruccoli A5.1.a; see Meyers, Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography.
Octavo (192 x 126mm). Original blue cloth (hinges neatly strengthened); slipcase. Provenance: James H. Douglas (1899-1988, Secretary of the US Air Force; inscription) – Christie's New York, 22 May 1981, lot 108.