The Beautiful and Damned

Author: FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Title: The Beautiful and Damned
Publication: New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922

Description: [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, second state/printing, with publisher's seal device to copyright page, ads to rear. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 449; [1], blank; [2], ads; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Text block toned as usual, cloth gently handled, gilt dulled. Very good. 'The Beautiful and the Damned' follows the decadent jazz age couple, Anthony and Gloria. Although their first three years of marriage are filled with excitement and joy, this soon evaporates as they begin to be repulsed by each others' hedonistic identities.

Bruccoli. Listed in Modern Library's Top 100 Novels [1998].

Seller ID: 67944

Subject: Literature



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