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First printing. Stated at copyright: "First published in Great Britain by Quartet Books Limited 1979." Dark brown cloth boards, stylized blind-stamped F. Scott to cover, light shelf wear. Pages generally fine; slight discoloration to exterior text block. Vintage red ballpoint inscription inside cover: "Beth & Douglas, Better health, luck, in '83. Love roger & Di." Bind fine; hinges intact. Original wrapper, slight wear, toning; unclipped 12.50, protected in new clear sleeve. Sophisticated cream wrapper design features thin, straight font w/what appears to be coloured image from portrait of a young F. Scott. Adjacent to title page: "I have asked a lot of my emotions - one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now" - Our April Letter, The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Throughout the twenties and thirties, F. Scott Fitzgerald was widely know as a writer of short stories about his generation's defiance of conventional social and sexual roles. Even better known for these stories than the novels that have ensured his immortality, he attracted thousands of readers to the mass-circulation magzines with his tales of sensual, self-reliant women and romantically idealistic men. By 1929, the Saturday Evening Post, than America's toughest market for stories was paying him 4,000 a story. This volume contains fifty previously uncollected stories, many of which have never appeared in Great Britan before and one of which never published prior. Editor Mathew Bruccoli has written a general intrroduction to the stories and notes for each one, placing them in a framework of FSF's career. "The purpose of a fiction story is to creat a passionate curiosity and then to gratify it unexpectedly, orgasmicaly, " wrote Fitzgerald in his notebooks. The stories of the the twenties are characterized by the their ebulliance, those of th ethiries by a brooding mood as Fitzgerald tried to comeme to terms with the social displacement of that decade. Together they form not only a fascinating history of the period but also a commentary on hhis novels, for Fitzgerald experimented with characters and thems which later uused in the longer works. Printed in England and bound by The Garden City Press Limited, Letchworth, Hertfordshire. 785 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020774
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