Tales of the Jazz Age

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Lot 54 | Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.



‘We were gay dogs in those days, heh Baby?': presentation copy of the first edition, second or third printing, inscribed by the author. An apparently unique copy, featuring a binding error which sees pp.68-98 duplicated in place of pp.99-130.



Tales of the Jazz Age was the author’s second collection of short stories, following Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and preceding All the Sad Young Men (1926). Collecting 11 tales that had previously appeared in periodicals, it includes well-known stories such as ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.’ With ‘an’ for ‘and’ on p.232 and battered type on 6 pages. Bruccoli A9.I.aa.



Octavo. (Lacking pp.99-130, with pp.68-98 instead repeated and bound in reverse order, light spotting and browning heavier at endpapers, front hinge cracking at half-title, half-title with small tear in gutter.) Original linen-grain green cloth, titled in blind to front board, spine lettered in gilt (two small punctures to spine, cloth somewhat marked and faded, small chip at foot of spine); original pictorial dust-jacket (jacket heavily restored with some portions of the printed area in excellent facsimile, the jacket seemingly supplied from another copy); custom green quarter morocco box. Provenance: authorial presentation inscription on free front endpaper: ‘We were gay dogs in those days, heh Baby? / F Scott Fitzgerald / To / M + Mme Sabre’ – Greenwood Bookshop, Wilmington, Delaware (label on rear pastedown) – John Stuart Groves (20th-century book collector in Wilmington, Delaware; label on front pastedown).

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