Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. The sixth printing, November 1922, author Budd Schulberg’s copy with stamped booklabel and penciled initials. Publisher’s cloth in the later issue dust jacket. 7 1/2 x 5 (19 x 13 cm); 269 pp. Jacket with a loss at the spine tip touching the top word, a larger loss at foot costing the imprint, other short tears, nicks, toning and stains, the volume generally sound with light rubbing to tips and corners, the front hinge loose after the half-title, toning to endpapers from jacket, original label of the Stanley Rose bookshop at rear, the front pastedown with the neat stamp of "Virginia and Budd Schulberg," the font blank penciled "B.W.S." for Budd Wilson Schulberg.

A fine association copy between F. Scott Fitzgerald and On the Waterfront author Budd Schulberg. This copy was acquired by Schulberg likely at time of his marriage to Virginia "Jigee" Lee Ray in 1936 and before their divorce in 1942. This timing is important as it was in 1939 that Schulberg was assigned to accompany Fitzgerald on a trip to Dartmouth College to collaborate on the comedy-drama Winter Carnival. Fitzgerald had recently lost his job in Hollywood and had been hospitalized for his drinking several times over the previous few years. The story goes that Schulberg, to pass the time. brought a bottle of whiskey on the flight east from Los Angeles which launched Fitzgerald on an epic bender and he was subsequently relieved of the writing assignment (Fitzgerald died in 1940). Schulberg's 1950 novel The Disenchanted is a thinly veiled memoir of his time with Fitzgerald.

Flappers and Philosphers was first published in 1920 and turned Fitzgerald into one of the country's most popular short story writers. The book is rare in any dust jacket, the example here is the later issue featuring Fitzgerald's portrait and a description of his books. The front panel offers an illustration of a young women receiving a flapper haircut, clearly a depiction of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," one of Fitzgerald's most popular and enduring stories of the Jazz Age. Brucolli A.6.I.f.