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Fitzgerald's ''Beautiful and Damned''

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Fitzgerald's ''Beautiful and Damned''
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Signed and inscribed first edition, third printing of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Beautiful and Damned.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1922. As Fitzgerald's second novel, the story paints a vivid portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age in America. Copy is inscribed by Fitzgerald on the front free endpaper: ''This book oddly enough is responsible from its title for the phrase 'beautiful and dumb.' I doubt if it has any other distinction. For Edward Everett Horton from F. Scott Fitzgerald / Encino 1939.'' In publisher's original green cloth boards with some soiling. Includes a later printing dustjacket from the A.L. Burt edition with minor wear. Very good condition.