In the First Issue Dust Jacket
Beautiful and Damned.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
Full Description:
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
First edition, first issue without the publisher's device on the colophon leaf. In the first issue pictorial dust jacket, with the front panel title lettering in white outlined in black. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 187 x 130 mm). [x], [1]-449, [1, blank] pp.
Original full green cloth. Front board lettered in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Some very light toning to endpapers. A closed tear neatly repaired on dedication leaf, not touching text. An about fine copy of the book. In the first issue dust jacket. Jacket has been professionally restored and recolored, primarily at the folds and along edges, as well as to the top part of the spine and front panel. Some of the lettering to top of spine and front panel have been replaced in facsimile. Inside of jacket has been recolored as well to create a completely unrestored look to both front and back of jacket. A very attractive example. Housed in a green quarter morocco clamshell case.
Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A.8.a .
HBS 69734.
$12,500.
Price: $12,500.00
Item #69734