Fitzgerald, F. Scott | An exquisitely bound set of first editions

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; The Last Tycoon. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920; 1922; 1925; 1934; 1941

5 vols, 8vo. Scribner seal to copyright pages; page stock slightly toned (as often), very occasional minor spotting and smudging to margins, evidence of ownership signature to half-title of The Last Tycoon, else all vols clean and fresh. Full dark green morocco gilt by Temple Bookbinders, gilt lettering to spines, red topstain to The Last Tycoon.

First editions, first impressions and first issue of The Great Gatsby with ‘sick in tired’ on p. 205, ‘chatter’ on p. 60, ‘northern’ p. 119, and ‘Union Street station’ p. 211.

A superbly bound set of first editions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald’s works vividly capture the spirit, disillusionment, and excesses of the 1920s and 1930s.

This collection includes five of Fitzgerald’s most celebrated works, beginning with This Side of Paradise, his debut novel that established him as a literary sensation and chronicler of his generation. The Beautiful and Damned portrays the decline of a couple ensnared by wealth and ambition, while The Great Gatsby stands as a masterpiece of American literature, offering a poignant critique of the American Dream through the tragic figure of Jay Gatsby. Tender is the Night delves into the complexities of love, mental illness, and expatriate life, while the posthumously published The Last Tycoon reflects Fitzgerald’s unfulfilled ambitions and offers an unfinished yet compelling portrait of Hollywood.