The Beautiful and Damned
London: Grey Walls Press Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo., 447 pp. First Grey Walls edition, first impression. Reviving Fitzgerald's novel of 1922 in the UK, this edition was issued 28 years after Collins's first UK edition and is the second UK edition overall. The Grey Walls was the first British publisher to put many Fitzgerald titles back into print following the author's posthumous designation in America as among the all-time great American novelists. The last time the work had appeared in the UK was in Collins's reprint of 1925. Fitzgerald's second novel is a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgerald's. Fitzgerald's second semi-autobiographical novel, holding an outstanding place in the literature on what it is to be young, beautiful, gifted, drunk, and useless. Very Good with slight spine lean and offsetting to the endpapers in a Near Fine dust jacket with some light edge wear. Item #8042415
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