First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xxxii, 287 pages. Hardcover. Cream colored dust jacket lightly soiled and abraded; small chip at head of rear flap fold; front flap is not price-clipped. Purple cloth with bright gilt stamped lettering to spine. Two small stains to text block's bottom edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features "Introduction," "Textual Note and Acknowledgements," and two titular sections with nine and five short stories respectively: {BASIL} "That Kind of Party;" "The Scandal Detectives;" "A Night at the Fair;" "The Freshest Boy;" "He Thinks He's Wonderful;" "The Captured Shadow;" "The Perfect Life;" "Forging Ahead;" "Basil and Cleopatra;" {JOSEPHINE} "First Blood;" "A Nice Quiet Place;" "A Woman with a Past;" "A Snobbish Story;" "Emotional Bankruptcy." Laid-in at title page is a brief but interesting essay clipped from January 5, 1974 issue of TV Guide regarding Fitzgerald by his longtime friend and noted screenwriter-novelist Budd Schulberg. ISBN 0684133989.

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THE BASIL AND JOSEPHINE STORIES.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [Scribner], 1973.

Publication Date

1973

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English

ISBN 10

0684133989

ISBN 13

9780684133980

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Fourteen short stories based on Fitzgerald's own boyhood experiences are critically introduced

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