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Lot 162
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$195
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Lot Description
FITZGERALD, Francis Scott (1896-1940). Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
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.
This lot is located in Chicago.
