Fitzgerald scott 1896 1940 (98 risultati)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. This side of paradise. Preface and notes by James L. West and Lynn Setzer. Scribner, 2003, , PAPERBACK, very good lightly used copy, one corner dinged. This classic novel, first published in 1920, tells the story of Amory Blaine's moral education and sexual awakening, brilliantly capturing the rhythms of postwar America and the spirit of a generation dedicated to the pursuit of excitement, sophistication. 9780684843780 ISBN 0684843781.…

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940. Bernice bobs her hair: and other stories. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 2015, 172pp., PAPERBACK, very good, light wear to corners. ISBN 9780486470498.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Physical Info: 1.5" H x 7.8" L x 5.4" W (1.55 lbs) 544 pages. 3rd printing. Features: Price on Product. Beige cover with blind-stamped and metallic stamped letters on front, back, and spine. Sewn binding. Beautiful paste downs. Secure ship w/track #. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned explores the world of America's upper class during World War I and the beginning of the Jazz Age. Loosely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife, Zelda, the novel centers around Anthony Patch, a young East Coast socialite who is heir to his grandfather's fortune and lacks motivation to pursue a meaningful career. In his attempt to find his place in society while waiting for his inheritance, Anthony loses himself to alcoholism; neglects his wife, Gloria; and struggles with the realities of everyday life. This volume also includes seven short stories by Fitzgerald published in the early 1920s."--. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Third Edition by Publisher. 212 pages with 15 B&W photo pages. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, a literary masterpiece, first published in 1941 a year after Fitzgerald's death, using the author's notes and outline. * It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, a character inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday. * The Last Tycoon (1941) is set in 1930s Hollywood and centered on Monroe Stahr, a brilliant, overworked film studio executive inspired by Irving Thalberg. Narrated by Cecilia Brady, the story follows Stahr's struggles with personal grief, studio politics, and a passionate, complicated romance after a studio earthquake. * Monroe Stahr, a "boy wonder" producer whose obsession with quality and personal turmoil leads to burnout. * Following the death of his wife, Minna, Stahr encounters Kathleen, a woman resembling her, amidst a studio disaster. His pursuit of this romance coincides with rising conflicts with his partner, Pat Brady. * The novel explores the corrupting influence of power, the decay of the American Dream, and the behind-the-scenes reality of the film industry. * Context: The book was published posthumously, edited by Edmund Wilson from6 completed chapters and extensive notes. * The narrative highlights the tension between art and commerce in the early studio system, featuring a deeply human, if tragic, portrait of a man losing control of his empire and life.** Creasing & surface scratching to covers. Painted Front Cover (illustratore). Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 212 pages with 15 B&W photo pages. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, a literary masterpiece, first published in 1941 a year after Fitzgerald's death, using the author's notes and outline. * It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, a character inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday. * The Last Tycoon (1941) is set in 1930s Hollywood and centered on Monroe Stahr, a brilliant, overworked film studio executive inspired by Irving Thalberg. Narrated by Cecilia Brady, the story follows Stahr's struggles with personal grief, studio politics, and a passionate, complicated romance after a studio earthquake. * Monroe Stahr, a "boy wonder" producer whose obsession with quality and personal turmoil leads to burnout. * Following the death of his wife, Minna, Stahr encounters Kathleen, a woman resembling her, amidst a studio disaster. His pursuit of this romance coincides with rising conflicts with his partner, Pat Brady. * The novel explores the corrupting influence of power, the decay of the American Dream, and the behind-the-scenes reality of the film industry. * Context: The book was published posthumously, edited by Edmund Wilson from6 completed chapters and extensive notes. * The narrative highlights the tension between art and commerce in the early studio system, featuring a deeply human, if tragic, portrait of a man losing control of his empire and life. ** Creasing & surface scratching to covers; stamp to interior front cover. Book.…

Reprint (originally published 1974). x, 244 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.5cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed; light bumping at spine heel. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli et al review F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's personal life via their letters, scrapbooks, and family photographs provided by their only child, daughter Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Features b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 2.5 pounds (1.13 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Shelf-R#2-Paperback75} ISBN 1570035296.…

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). [8], 386 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed and well toned; some foxing and soiling spots; short tear and crease at rear panel's bottom center; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth; white lettering to spine. Strong toning/foxing to text block's top edge; foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Some foxing to interior leaves mostly occurring at margins. Binding is firm. With a Foreword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith and Preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Features twenty-one short stories: "The popular girl;" "Love in the night;" "Our own movie queen;" "A penny spent;" "The dance;" "Jacob's ladder;" "The swimmers;" "The original follies girl;" "The southern girl;" "The girl the prince liked;" "The girl with talent;" "A millionaire's girl;" "Poor working girl;" "The hotel child;" "A new leaf;" "Miss Ella;" "The continental angle;" "A couple of nuts;" "What a handsome pair!;" "Last kiss;" "Dearly beloved." ISBN 0684139022.…

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xxxii, 287 pages. Hardcover. Cream colored dust jacket lightly soiled and abraded; small chip at head of rear flap fold; front flap is not price-clipped. Purple cloth with bright gilt stamped lettering to spine. Two small stains to text block's bottom edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features "Introduction," "Textual Note and Acknowledgements," and two titular sections with nine and five short stories respectively: {BASIL} "That Kind of Party;" "The Scandal Detectives;" "A Night at the Fair;" "The Freshest Boy;" "He Thinks He's Wonderful;" "The Captured Shadow;" "The Perfect Life;" "Forging Ahead;" "Basil and Cleopatra;" {JOSEPHINE} "First Blood;" "A Nice Quiet Place;" "A Woman with a Past;" "A Snobbish Story;" "Emotional Bankruptcy." Laid-in at title page is a brief but interesting essay clipped from January 5, 1974 issue of TV Guide regarding Fitzgerald by his longtime friend and noted screenwriter-novelist Budd Schulberg. ISBN 0684133989.…

Reprint. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-torn. Previous owner's markings throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Penguin classics. Physical description; lv, 176 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; This edition originally published: 1990. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Gatsby, Jay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Rich people New York (State) Long Island Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Traffic accidents Fiction. Mistresses Fiction. Revenge Fiction. American fiction 20th century. Long Island (N.Y.) Fiction. 1 Kg. …

Reprint. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-torn. Previous owner's markings throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Series; Penguin classics. Physical description; lv, 176 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; This edition originally published: 1990. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Gatsby, Jay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Rich people New York (State) Long Island Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Traffic accidents Fiction. Mistresses Fiction. Revenge Fiction. American fiction 20th century. Long Island (N.Y.) Fiction. 1 Kg. …

First Edition in this form. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Penguin modern classics. Physical description: 192p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Short stories -- American fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition in this form. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Penguin modern classics. Physical description: 192p. ; 19cm. Subjects: Short stories -- American fiction. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First. xviii + 615pp, frontis. * "Mirrored his kind & his period in American History" (Moore).

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Paged as 21-46 plus covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 25.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dark mustard paper covers lightly soiled; discreet staple holes at covers' top centers; light wear to covers' edges. Author's three-line ink inscription "For Peyton, | with best regards - | Jim" boldly written upon front cover. Interior pages are clean. Stapled binding is firm. Official single article offprint which originally appeared in the Autumn 1976 issue of "The Princeton University Library Chronicle." Laid-in the booklet (although unrelated to it) is a November 1975 folded typed letter signed to Peyton from William Boozer of Memphis, Tennessee publisher Pigeon Roost presumably regarding their reprint of William Faulkner's "The Marble Faun." Inscribee "Peyton" is Peyton Ward Williams Jr. (1916-1987), an authority on Southern literature and, in particular, the work of William Faulkner. Peyton Williams served as editor of MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY beginning in 1970 until his passing in 1987 with his wife Jerry Turner Williams (1924-2010) equally involved with the Mississippi State University periodical from 1970 until her passing in 2010. The offprint was acquired directly from the Williams' Starkville, Mississippi estate. James L. W. West III is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.…

Reprint (Scribner's "E-2-65" code for February 1965 upon copyright page. [6], 282 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.25cm. White, blue, and gold dust jacket lightly toned; slight scuffs and a few short tears at edges; original Doubleday bookstore price sticker still affixed at rear panel's top right; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth. Slight toning to endpapers; last three leaves have minor wear at their fore-edges; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. "This Side of Paradise" was F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel first published in March 1920. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. xvi, 298 pp. [ISBN: 978-0810891951] Softbound. A fine bright copy.

First edition, first printing (with latter indicated by publisher's number line upon copyright page). x, 246 pages. Hardcover: H 36.25cm x L 28.25cm. Dust jacket well rubbed and lightly soiled; usual color fading/sunning to spine and front panel margins; light toning at tops of flaps; bumping and nicks/scuffs at edges; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth; gilt and copper stamped lettering to spine and front board remains bright. Foxing to front and rear endpaper maps; light foxing to pages 80-81 caused by laid-in newspaper article "Scottie Smith Comes Home" (The Birmingham News, Sunday, April 28, 1974); a few scattered occurrences of light foxing and soiling to interior leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding slightly stressed at laid-in newspaper article but otherwise remains firm. With Introduction, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout, and unpaged four leaf (i.e. eight page) section of color plates reproducing Zelda's artwork (watercolor paintings, oils, and paper doll illustrations). A very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli et al review F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's personal life via their letters, scrapbooks, and family photographs provided by their only child, daughter Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.5 pounds (2.49 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {SlatedBookcase-Shelf#7} ISBN 0684139235.…

No edition/printing statement provided. 128 pages. Hardcover: H 29.75cm x L 23.75cm. Dust jacket with small scuffs and slight bumping at edges; dj presented in an older rubbed mylar protector. Black boards. Black ink mark (publisher's remainder mark?) on text block's bottom edge with leaves fractionally affected at margins; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0810939835.…

[10], 226, [4 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/4" Average wear & age-toning to volume, Very Good, in a worn Good-only jacket, which has a largish chip from the front panel top edge [see image]. Original publisher's mauve colored cloth binding. Dust jacket, with b/w photographic image of Fitzgerald to front panel, image taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1937 2nd printing,and the 1st trade edition, preceded by the Princeton Library edition (Bruccoli A22.1.b).…

Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 238 pages. Subjects; English literature; 20th century. English fiction; 20th century. Adventure stories. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Library marks remain. Physical description; 441 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Originally published, Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1972. Subjects; Ober, Harold (1881-1959) ; Correspondence. Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) ; Correspondence. Ober, Harold (1881-1959). Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) Biography. Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) Friends and associates. Novelists, American 20th century ; Correspondence. Novelists, American 20th century ; Biography. American literature 20th century History and criticism. Novelists, American. fiction in english american writers fitzgerald, francis scott correspondence with ober, harold. Fiction in English American writers Fitzgerald, F Scott Correspondence, diaries, etc. Genres; Biography. Briefsammlung (1919-1940). 1 Kg. …

Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 238 pages. Subjects; English literature; 20th century. English fiction; 20th century. Adventure stories. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Library marks remain. Physical description; 441 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Originally published, Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1972. Subjects; Ober, Harold (1881-1959) ; Correspondence. Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) ; Correspondence. Ober, Harold (1881-1959). Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) Biography. Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940) Friends and associates. Novelists, American 20th century ; Correspondence. Novelists, American 20th century ; Biography. American literature 20th century History and criticism. Novelists, American. fiction in english american writers fitzgerald, francis scott correspondence with ober, harold. Fiction in English American writers Fitzgerald, F Scott Correspondence, diaries, etc. Genres; Biography. Briefsammlung (1919-1940). 1 Kg. …

Cartoné. 1ª ed., 1ª imp.528 p. 20x13 cm. Cartoné. 9788489669239. Narrativa, F - Ficción Y Temas Afines 2AB - Inglés.

2nd edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, nicked and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 238 pages ; 19 cm. Contents; The cut-glass bowl.--May Day.--The diamond as big as the Ritz.--The rich boy.--Crazy Sunday.--An alcoholic case.--The lees of happiness. Subjects; 1900-1999. Short stories, American 20th century. Short stories, American. American (cultural identity), Satire. Fiction in English American writers 1900-1945 Texts. Short stories in English, 1900-. 1 Kg.…

2nd edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, nicked and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 238 pages ; 19 cm. Contents; The cut-glass bowl.--May Day.--The diamond as big as the Ritz.--The rich boy.--Crazy Sunday.--An alcoholic case.--The lees of happiness. Subjects; 1900-1999. Short stories, American 20th century. Short stories, American. American (cultural identity), Satire. Fiction in English American writers 1900-1945 Texts. Short stories in English, 1900-. 1 Kg.…

First edition, first printing (with latter indicated by publisher's number line upon copyright page). x, 246 pages. Hardcover: H 36.25cm x L 28.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled; usual color fading/sunning to spine and front panel; some toning to flaps; bumping and several tears at edges; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth with bumping at corners; spine's gilt stamped lettering remains bright as does front board's gilt and copper stamped lettering. Front endpapers illustrated with United States map titled "The Fitzgeralds' America" and rear endpapers illustrated with European map titled "The Fitzgeralds' Europe." Some surface peeling affecting illustration at top of front pastedown from removal of gift tag; front free endpaper has past owner's red ink signature and date at center top with personal blind-stamp at lower right; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Introduction, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout, and unpaged four leaf (i.e. eight page) section of color plates reproducing Zelda's artwork (watercolor paintings, oils, and paper doll illustrations). A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli et al review F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's personal life via their letters, scrapbooks, and family photographs provided by their only child, daughter Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.5 pounds (2.49 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {SlatedBookcase-Shelf#6} ISBN 0684139235. …

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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Aceptable. Sin Sobrecubierta. 4ª Edición. Titulo original: This side of Pradise. Traducción: Juan Benet Goitia. Los gastos de envío son calculados para un peso inferior a 1kg, superándose este peso le informaremos de los gastos de envío adicionales. Firmado por el anterior propie.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.