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; with the author's apology leaf inscribed by him
This Side of Paradise.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
Item Number: 121654
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
First edition, third printing (issued the same month as the first0 of Fitzgerald’s first novel, one of 500 copies issued with the tipped in “Author’s Apology” leaf signed by Fitzgerald, “Sincerely F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. These copies were prepared for a meeting of the American Booksellers Association.” In near 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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