FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940. The Beautiful and the Damned. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940.
The Beautiful and the Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover in blind, original pictorial dust jacket by W.E. Hill, minor chipping to corners of jacket, small amount of restoration to upper spine.Provenance: "Sara from the Pitmans" (inscription dated 1923).FIRST EDITION, IN UNRESTORED FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. Fitzgerald's lyrical second novel, anticipating The Great Gatsby in it's tragic tones, depicts a doomed but glamorous marriage amidst the high and hard lives of 1920s New York, a world Fitzgerald saw "with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries" (Tobias Wolff). Bruccoli A8.I.a.