The Collected Library: Summer Reading

8vo. (A few small marginal stains.) Original blue-green cloth, gilt-lettered spine (few stains to covers, light rubbing to ends and fore-corners, rear hinge starting). Provenance: ownership signature on front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “and” instead of “an” on p. 232. Fitzgerald's second book of short stories, including the well–known “May Day,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Fitzgerald is credited with coining the phrase “The Jazz Age” to describe the Roaring 20's. Bruccoli A9.1.a.