The Beautiful and Damned
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
First edition, first state without publisher's colophon on the copyright page. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with titles in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine. Very Good+ with light soiling; several small patches of wear to cloth at fore edge with neat repair. Front free end paper is slightly abraded, small tear to foot of page with Fitzgerald's signature on it, mended with a small piece of tissue from the verso. Contents are lightly toned and just slightly wavy. The author's second novel, which portrays New York cafe society and American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, which Fitzgerald himself would later become emblematic of. Item #140944053
Price: $25,000.00