This Side of Paradise.
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward": F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
This Side of Paradise.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
Item Number: 139813
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
First edition, early printing of the author’s first novel. Octavo, bound by full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, twin rule to turn ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. F. Scott Fitzgerald signature on the front panel of each volume. In fine condition.
Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise examines the lives and concerns of the Lost Generation in the aftermath of World War I. Published under the direction of Maxwell Perkins in 1920, the novel marked the arrival of a new literary generation which would include such notable authors as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Jean Rhys, and Sylvia Beach. The novel is rumored to have won F. Scott Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage; its publication was her condition of acceptance.
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