Books and Manuscripts

1917 Princeton Yearbook Featuring a Young F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]
The Princeton Bric-a-Brac
Philadelphia: Press of E.A. Wright Company, December 15, 1917. Volume XLIII. Oblong 12mo. 369, (2), i-xli, (2) pp. Publisher's full black cloth, bevelled edges, stamped in gilt, joints and extremities rubbed; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; illustrated book-plate on front paste-down; light foxing to prelims; gutter split, pp. 132-133, (150-151), and 166-167. 

The Princeton University yearbook for the class of 1919, featuring a young F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald attended Princeton beginning in 1913, and was member of several extracurricular clubs, including the Triangle Club (the university's biggest theater club), the Nassau Lit (magazine), The Tiger Inn (eating club), and the Cottage Club (eating club). These social activities overshadowed his academic abilities, and due to his poor grades, he left the college in November 1917 without receiving his diploma, to avoid being dropped. Princeton would go on to feature in his debut novel, This Side of Paradise (see lot), published in 1920.

This yearbook features two photographs of Fitzgerald, as a member of the Triangle Club (pp. 131-132) and the Tiger Inn (pp. 154-155), and contains two listings of his name--in the Cottage Club and in the directory.

Uncommon to auction.