FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
This Side of Paradise.
First Edition of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; In the exceptionally rare original dust jacket
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
$125,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-149472
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First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, with an initial printing of only 3,000 copies, of which only a handful survive in the original dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the exceptionally rare original first issue dust jacket, expertly restored. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. The dust jacket is of utmost rarity, much more so than The Great Gatsby, which was published five years later. The last example in the dust jacket in 2014 brought 161,000.
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. The novel's hero, Amory Blaine, is a handsome, spoiled young man who attends Princeton, becomes involved in literary activities and has several ill-fated romances. A portrait of the Lost Generation, the novel addresses Fitzgerald's later theme of love distorted by social climbing and greed" (Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature). Fitzgerald was still at university when he submitted the manuscript, then titled The Romantic Egoist, to Charles Scribner, whom he had known at Princeton. It was published on 26 March 1920, was an immediate success, and launched Fitzgerald's literary career.
This Side of Paradise.
$125,000.00
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