Flappers and Philosophers
by Fitzgerald, F Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Scribners: NY, 1920. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920. First Edition; Third Printing. First edition, third printing; this is the Oct. , 1920 printing, first print was Sept. , 1920. Book looks the same as the first printing published in the prior month. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Dark green cloth. Edges are lightly bumped and light surface spotting to dark green cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine is still easy to read. Former owner name in pencil on front fly. Endpapers have modest foxing as well as some small spotting to some pages. Bottom margins of the first several pages have a pressure crease.. (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) .
Synopsis
Flappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writer’s entry into short fiction, and contains some of his most famous early stories, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Ice Palace,” “Head and Shoulders,” and “The Offshore Pirate.” In these pages we meet Fitzgerald’s trademark characters: the beautiful, headstrong young women and the dissolute, wandering young men who comprised what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down by a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whose weapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors. An instant classic in its time, a confirmed part of the canon today, this collection evokes 1920s America through the eyes of a writer indelibly linked to that singular era. (Publisher Summary - Random House )
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- Bookseller
- Abound Book Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16821
- Title
- Flappers and Philosophers
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F Scott
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribners: NY, 1920
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00
- Bookseller catalogs
- F Scott Fitzgerald;
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