New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. Reprint. 8vo. Navy blue quarter cloth over royal blue boards with silver lettering embossed on spine, 775 pp. Contents: "Head and Shoulders", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "The Ice Palace", "The Offshore Pirate", " May Day", "The Jelly-Bean", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Winter Dreams", "Dice, Brass Knuckles and Guitar", "Absolution", "Rags-Martin Jones and the Pr-ince of W-les", " The Sensible Thing", "Love in the Night", "The Rich Boy", "Jacob's Ladder", "A Short Trip Home", "The Bowl", "The Captured Shadow", "Basil and Cleopatra", "The Last of the Belles", " Majesty", "At Your Age", "The Swimmers", "Two Wrongs", " First Blood", "Emotional Bankruptcy", "The Bridal Party", "One Road Trip Abroad", "The Hotel Child", "Babylon Revisited", "A New Leaf", "A Freeze-Out", "Six of One", "What a Handsome Pair!", "Crazy Sunday", "More Than Just a House", "Afternoon of an Author", "Financing Finnegan", "The Lost Decade", "Boil Some Water- Lots of It", "Last Kiss", and "Dearly Beloved". Forward by Charles Scribner, III. Dust jacket has modest shelf wear, 3" very fine scratch on front cover, boards are slightly sunned at top edge, free endpaper has 1" flat tear, former owner gilt stamp, blind stamp, dust jacket colors still strong, text block tight, bright, appears gently read. Very good in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 020642
Title: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Bruccoli, Matthew J. (editor)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: SHORT FICTION
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.