.jpg?w=1)
Details
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers. New York, 1920. 8o. Original cloth (fine); front panel and flap of scarce dust jacket tipped in at rear (edges frayed). FIRST EDITION, RARE PRESENTATION BY SCOTT AND ZELDA FITZGERALD TO A FELLOW SCRIBNER'S AUTHOR. Inscribed on the flyleaf and dedication page respectively, with Zelda's inscription apparently dated on the novel's publication date. Scott Fitzgerald begins warmly, "To JW Rogers Wishing him a most amusing trip to a better land than this. (not double entendre) As Ever F. Scott Fitzgerald." Zelda's inscription, written along the top edge and around her printed name on the dedication page, is even more playful, "Wishing you a happy birth-/day- only it isn't, is it?" She then adds the novel's month and and day of publication, "Sept. 10", but inexplicably records the year as "1912".
Books presented by both F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are extremely scarce. Along with his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, this first collection of stories catapulted Fitzgerald to fame on campuses across America with its perfectly turned accounts of Jazz Age excesses among the young romantic set. Scott and Zelda worked hard to be the embodient of the glamorous party couples that Fitzgerald portrayed in his prose, and having them both inscribe the book that set the aura of the Roaring Twenties is particularly emblematic. Provenance: John William Rogers, a Texan playwright ("Judge Lynch") and Scribner's author in the 20s (he edited a compilation of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays on writing) who was apparently one of the few writers that impressed Fitzgerald from the rather lacklustre stable of authors published by Scribner's at the time.
Books presented by both F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are extremely scarce. Along with his debut novel, This Side of Paradise, this first collection of stories catapulted Fitzgerald to fame on campuses across America with its perfectly turned accounts of Jazz Age excesses among the young romantic set. Scott and Zelda worked hard to be the embodient of the glamorous party couples that Fitzgerald portrayed in his prose, and having them both inscribe the book that set the aura of the Roaring Twenties is particularly emblematic. Provenance: John William Rogers, a Texan playwright ("Judge Lynch") and Scribner's author in the 20s (he edited a compilation of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays on writing) who was apparently one of the few writers that impressed Fitzgerald from the rather lacklustre stable of authors published by Scribner's at the time.