FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Scribner's 1922. 8vo, original green cloth (a trifle soiled), pictorial dust jacket (crease in spine, rear panel and spine a bit dust-soiled); half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, the dust jacket the rare (and later) variant with the title lettering on front cover in solid black, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Harry Hansen Dean of the Middle-West from his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald." Hansen was the book reviewer on the Chicago Daily News; when Fitzgerald's first book, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920, he "sent Scribners a fan letter that began, 'My, how that boy Fitzgerald can write!'" (Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York, 1993, p. 138). Bruccoli A8.1.a and Supplement (same number). A very good copy.