The Beautiful and Damned
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hill, W.E. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Item #2334400
2nd printing in second issue jacket. Jackets in any state are scarce for this title. Also includes new facsimile jacket. Hinges loosening, boards a bit scuffed with internal closed puncture to middle of spine cloth. Large chip from front jacket corner, some loss from other corners, minor repair on jacket reverse along front flap crease.
449, [1] pp. 8vo. Jacket art by W.E. Hill. Fitzgerald's second novel, published just two years after his debut, This Side of Paradise. "The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather's death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and is destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoes -- first in hilarity, and then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a devastating portrait of the nouveaux riches, New York night life, reckless ambition, and squandered talent, was published in 1922 on the heels of Fitzgerald's first novel. It signaled his maturity as a storyteller and, more important, as a novelist."
Price: $3,750.00