THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922. Dark green linen grain cloth, front cover lettered in blind, spine in gilt. Page edges yellowed; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; some flaking and dulling to spine gilt; short cloth ripples to one side of lower spine; one inch tear to top margin of pp 13-14 neatly repaired; generally VG otherwise, clean, tight & unworn, no owner names. Probably made from US first printing sheets with a reset first gathering. Bruccoli A8.1.a. In 45 years of literary bookselling in Canada, we have heard of but a single Canadian issue Fitzgerald turning up in jacket, although we have no doubt they were all so issued. Bruccoli was unable to find an example of the jacket. Scarce. ; Octavo