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The Jazz Age
To mark the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the quintessential author of the Jazz Age, our Modern Literature specialists have chosen a selection of books which capture both the essence of fashionable society in the 1920s and 30s and as well as the disillusionment of post-war America.
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First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt, with the dust jacket; cloth a little mottled as usual but an excellent copy in the rather worn, rubbed, chipped and internally repaired dust jacket.
£1,200 -
First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; finely bound for Asprey in full green morocco, single rules to boards, titles to spine in compartments, gilt, all edges gilt, spine lightly and pleasingly mellowed. A fine copy.
£1,250 -
8vo; full complement of blank pages; printing department binding of green cloth, gilt lettered lettering-piece to spine (later addition), plain paper endpapers to front (paste-residue showing and offsetting), heavier, more finished salmon ones to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, soiling and fading to boards and spine but sound and solid; hand-written letter loosely inserted (215 x 140 mm), folded horizontally twice, creased at corners, short split to right margin of each fold, otherwise very good.
£3,750 -
First edition, first printing, review copy with ink stamp and publisher's ink note to title; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, a fine copy, dust-jacket, minor superficial rubbing to one corner and spine ends, but overall a fine example.
£250 -
First edition; signed by the author on half-title; 8vo; lacking front free endpaper but secondary one extant, mild marginal toning as often; publisher's pictorial cloth backed with brocade cloth, photographic portrait to front cover by Carl Van Vechten, paper spine label, light dust-soiling, a few marks to upper cover but overall very good.
£750 -
First edition, first issue with 'Jefferson' for 'Mottstown' on p340, line 1; 8vo; publisher's cloth printed in blue and orange, top edge coloured orange, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, spine panel slightly faded, slight wear to extremities; unobtrusive bookseller's label to rear pastedown, otherwise a fine copy.
£4,000