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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Scribner's, 1922.
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Scribner's, 1922.
8o. Original green cloth (spine dull, front inner hinge skillfully strengthened). Provenance: Sheilah Graham (1904-1988), Fitzgerald's companion in Hollywood (signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, AND A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY of Fitzgerald's second book of stories, a later printing. Fitzgerald had noted Sheilah Graham's resemblance to Zelda when he met her in 1937. When she revealed her true past--that of an English-born orphan--Fitzgerald became more enamored of her than the image she projected of a well-bred English woman who had performed in Cochran's Young Ladies, the English equivalent of a Ziegfeld Girl. Fitzgerald devised a program to educate Graham, called "College of One" and he encouraged her to write fiction. They led a quiet life together in Hollywood, avoiding large cocktail parties but attending dinners. Graham did not try to make Fitzgerald divorce Zelda and while they maintained separate residences for most of their relationship, he moved to her apartment after he suffered a heart attack. It was there he died, about six weeks later, on 21 December 1940. Graham later wrote with Gerald Frank, Beloved Infidel, her memoir of life with Fitzgerald, published in 1958. Bruccoli A9.I.a.
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FIRST EDITION, AND A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY of Fitzgerald's second book of stories, a later printing. Fitzgerald had noted Sheilah Graham's resemblance to Zelda when he met her in 1937. When she revealed her true past--that of an English-born orphan--Fitzgerald became more enamored of her than the image she projected of a well-bred English woman who had performed in Cochran's Young Ladies, the English equivalent of a Ziegfeld Girl. Fitzgerald devised a program to educate Graham, called "College of One" and he encouraged her to write fiction. They led a quiet life together in Hollywood, avoiding large cocktail parties but attending dinners. Graham did not try to make Fitzgerald divorce Zelda and while they maintained separate residences for most of their relationship, he moved to her apartment after he suffered a heart attack. It was there he died, about six weeks later, on 21 December 1940. Graham later wrote with Gerald Frank, Beloved Infidel, her memoir of life with Fitzgerald, published in 1958. Bruccoli A9.I.a.