FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940. This Side of Paradise. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. 1896-1940.
This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover in blind, original publisher's pictorial dust jacket by W.E. Hill, professionally restored, with "T" and part of "H" at upper spine, and part of "SCRIBNER FICTION" at upper rear panel in expert facsimile.FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Submitted to publisher's while he was still a student at Princeton, and being a thinly fictionalized account of his life there, This Side of Paradise launched Fitzgerald's career as the most successful chronicler of America in the 1920s. Bruccoli A5.I.a.