8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (small stain upper cover, spine slightly leaned). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "Published April, 1920" on the copyright page.  Fitzgerald's autobiographical novel, set at Princeton, secured his place as the voice of his generation. The "defiant tone [of Tales of the Jazz Age] had the same powerful impact on rebellious postwar youth as Salinger's Catcher in the Rye did in 1951, and it became a Bible and guidebook as the Twenties began to roar " (Meyers, p.56). Bruccoli A5.1.a.