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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1926.
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1926.
8o. Original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (lower edge of front cover bumped, spine faded, some wear at extremities). Provenance: Grace Moore (1898-1947), American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (presentation inscription from the author; bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD TO GRACE MOORE on the front free endpaper: "For Grace Moore from her devoted friend F. Scott Fitzgerald Monte Carlo 1926." Fitzgerald spent time on the Rivierra in the summer of 1926 and socialized with Moore: "We have rather a nice place here on the Rivierra between Antibes + Cannes and half the Americans I know have been or are hereabouts this summer--Gerald Murphys, Archie Mclieshes, Marice Hamilton, Deering Davis, the Wymans, Grace Moore... Hemmingway [sic], Picasso..." (letter to Ludlow Fowler, Correspondence., p.200). In a letter to Zelda from 1930, Fitzgerald complained of how that summer Zelda "drank all the time" and "Then you found Grace Moore and Ruth and Charlie and the summer passed, one party after another" (ibid., p.247). Originally from Tennessee, Grace Moore studied briefly at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville before moving to Washington, D.C. and New York City to continue her musical training and begin her career. Her first paying job as a singer was at the Black Cat Cafe in Greenwich Village. In the 1934 film One Night of Love, her first film for Columbia, she portrayed a small-town girl who aspires to sing opera. For that role she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935. In 1935 Moore received the gold medal award of the Society of Arts and Sciences for "conspicuous achievement in raising the standard of cinema entertainment." In 1936 King Christian X of Denmark awarded her his country's medal of 'Ingenito et Arti.' Grace Moore died in a plane crash near the Copenhagen, Denmark airport on January 26, 1947, at the age of 48. Among the other plane crash victims was Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Bruccoli A12.1.a.
8o. Original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (lower edge of front cover bumped, spine faded, some wear at extremities). Provenance: Grace Moore (1898-1947), American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (presentation inscription from the author; bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD TO GRACE MOORE on the front free endpaper: "For Grace Moore from her devoted friend F. Scott Fitzgerald Monte Carlo 1926." Fitzgerald spent time on the Rivierra in the summer of 1926 and socialized with Moore: "We have rather a nice place here on the Rivierra between Antibes + Cannes and half the Americans I know have been or are hereabouts this summer--Gerald Murphys, Archie Mclieshes, Marice Hamilton, Deering Davis, the Wymans, Grace Moore... Hemmingway [sic], Picasso..." (letter to Ludlow Fowler, Correspondence., p.200). In a letter to Zelda from 1930, Fitzgerald complained of how that summer Zelda "drank all the time" and "Then you found Grace Moore and Ruth and Charlie and the summer passed, one party after another" (ibid., p.247). Originally from Tennessee, Grace Moore studied briefly at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville before moving to Washington, D.C. and New York City to continue her musical training and begin her career. Her first paying job as a singer was at the Black Cat Cafe in Greenwich Village. In the 1934 film One Night of Love, her first film for Columbia, she portrayed a small-town girl who aspires to sing opera. For that role she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935. In 1935 Moore received the gold medal award of the Society of Arts and Sciences for "conspicuous achievement in raising the standard of cinema entertainment." In 1936 King Christian X of Denmark awarded her his country's medal of 'Ingenito et Arti.' Grace Moore died in a plane crash near the Copenhagen, Denmark airport on January 26, 1947, at the age of 48. Among the other plane crash victims was Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Bruccoli A12.1.a.