Fitzgerald’s First Book
This Side of Paradise.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. 305 pp. Printing flaw affecting pages 186-187 and 190-191, with these pages not printed. 1 vols. 8vo. Fitzgerald’s First Book. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Bruccoli A5.1.a.
Item #322450
Fitzgerald's first book, printed in 3,000 copies and released at the end of March 1920. The first printing sold out within days, and a second printing was issued in April.