Description: Easton Press leather edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "This Side of Paradise," lllustrated with Frontispiece Painting, a COLLECTOR'S edition, published in 1987. Bound in a burgundy leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in good condition---but the second and third pages has 'foxing' and the front and back boards have 'major' loss of gilt. [See photos.] Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who lived from 1896-1940, wrote twenty-eight stories in this collection depicting a glittering world filled with adventure, tragedy, romance, melancholy, gaiety, and reckless abandon. Fitzgerald grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and attended PRINCETON University. After college, he wrote, married Zelda Sayre, and they couple lived in Paris in the 1920s. This experience proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. Scott and Zelda made many friends among the American expatriate community in Paris, notably Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, the American living in Paris and whose Salon the young people patronized. Stein labeled Hemingway and Fitzgerald the "lost generation." "This Side of Paradise" examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the JAZZ Age. Its protagonist, AMORY BLAINE, is an attractive middle-class student at PRINCETON. Amory is eighteen years old, just under six feet tall and exceptionally handsome, "but he lacked the intense animal magnetism that often accompanies beauty in men. . .but people never forgot his face." Amory dabbles in literature and engages in a series of romances with flappers. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. The novel became a sensation in the U.S. when it was published; the book went through twelve printings and sold 49,075 copies the first year. The novel riveted the nation's attention upon the leisure activities of this hedonistic younger generation. 255 pages---a Rare title. I offer combined shipping.
Price: 49.95 USD
Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Signed: No
Publisher: Easton Press
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1987
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Frontispiece Painting
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: North America
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Hedonistic novel of the 1920s
Character Family: Amory Blaine, Beatrice
