Flappers Philosophers, Signed (2 results)

First edition of the Library of America compilations of the works fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald from 1920-1922. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial endpapers, silk ribbon bound in. Signed by Jackson R. Bryer on the colophon. Bryer is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the co-founder and president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He wrote the chronology and notes for this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Author photo courtesy of George Eastman House. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920â"1922 (The Library of America, 2000), edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, is the authoritative gathering of Fitzgerald's early work â" the concentrated burst of fiction that in the space of just two years made him the most celebrated young writer in America and the defining literary voice of the Jazz Age. At the outset of what Fitzgerald himself called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," these four volumes collectively offer the fullest literary expression of one of the most fascinating eras in American life, mastering a glittering aphoristic prose and keen social observation that would distinguish all his subsequent writing while sounding, beneath the era's wild cacophony, a plaintive strain of lament for the wasted potential of youth. This Side of Paradise (1920), offering in its Princeton chapters the most enduring portrait of college life in American literature, gave Fitzgerald the early success that defined and haunted him for the rest of his career; Flappers and Philosophers (1920) gathers accomplished short stories including "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Ice Palace"; The Beautiful and Damned (1922) traces the excruciating dissipation of the self-styled aristocrat Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife Gloria; and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains the novella "May Day" and the celebrated fable "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz.".

HARDBACK. Condition: FINE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Tight, square, highly collectible First Edition of the Fitzgerald high spot made infinitely more special as it is boldly signed on the front free endpaper by the author's legendary literary agent Harold N. Swanson. Unusual as Swanson usually signed simply as H.L. Swanson.