All the Sad Young Men
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition/DJ Good
- Seller
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Cloverdale, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition/DJ Good. First Printing, First State Dust Jacket with unbattered lips. The type on pages 38, 90, and 248 is also unbattered. The boards are a dark green cloth and the Scribner's seal is present on copyright page. DJ is not clipped and priced $2.00. DJ is in protective mylar. The colors to the DJ are bright. There is some light sunning to spine of DJ. There is some light chipping to the edges of DJ, but it presents well. There is some light rubbing to DJ which is shown in photos. The boards are bright and clean. There is a former owner's name written on the front fly. The pages are clean and unmarked. All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories published by Fitzgerald. It was published right after The Great Gatsby and may have been overshadowed by the success of that novel. The story "Absolution" is a false start to The Great Gatsby.
Synopsis
All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1926. It contains nine stories: "The Rich Boy" "Winter Dreams" "The Baby Party" "Absolution" "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" "The Adjuster" "Hot and Cold Blood" ""The Sensible Thing"" "Gretchen's Forty Winks" As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, which was The Great Gatsby.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Flip Your Wig
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100613001
- Title
- All the Sad Young Men
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
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About Flip Your Wig
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First State
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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