Flappers and Philosophers.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Item Number: 21056

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

First edition, later printing. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sincerely yours F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Some of the usual rubbing and staining to the cloth in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

F. Scott Fitzgerald followed up his smash debut novel, This Side of Paradise, with this 1920 collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers. It marked his entry into the realm of the short story, in which he proved himself "a master of the mechanism of short story technique" (Boston Transcript). Several of his most beloved tales are represented in this collection of eight, including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "Head and Shoulders," with their particularly O. Henry­like twists; the poignant "Benediction" and "The Cut-Glass Bowl"; and "The Offshore Pirate," the octet's opening and most romantic story. It is a collection of masterful short works from an American literary icon that led The New York Times Book Review to note that "[no one] can fail to recognize Mr. Fitzgerald's talent and genius."