FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940.
This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover in blind. Inserted publisher's 'Author's Apology' leaf for the American Bookseller's Association, signed by Fitzgerald, without dust jacket, as issued.

SPECIAL SIGNED ISSUE FOR THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLER'S ASSOCIATION, one of 'probably 500 copies of the third printing' containing a tipped in ad leaf with Fitzgerald's apology, concluding 'My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. So, gentlemen, consider all the cocktails mentioned in this book drunk by me as a toast to the American Booksellers Association.' A clean, bright copy. Bruccoli A5.1.c.
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