F. Scott Fitzgerald Collector’s Edition Set. Including: The Great Gatsby, Beautiful and Damned, Babylon Revisited, Last Tycoon, Tales of the Jazz Age, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 147877

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991.

First collector’s edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works by The Easton Press. Royal octavo, seven volumes, elaborately bound in full leather with various colors and designs with gilt titles to the spine in 5-9 compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, watered silk moire endpapers, silk bookmarks, frontispieces. Illustrations by Frank Mayo, Mario Stasolla, Richard Sparks, and Fred Meyer. In fine condition.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was a key figure of the Jazz Age, known for his exploration of wealth, ambition, and disillusionment in early 20th-century America. His most famous novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), critiques the American Dream through the tragic rise and fall of Jay Gatsby. This Side of Paradise (1920) established Fitzgerald as a literary voice of his generation, depicting postwar youth and social change. The Beautiful and Damned (1922) explores the moral and financial decline of a privileged couple, while Tender Is the Night (1934) delves into psychological and romantic disintegration. His short story collections, including Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) and Babylon Revisited (1931), further examine themes of nostalgia and lost wealth. The Last Tycoon (published posthumously in 1941) remained unfinished but reflects his evolving critique of Hollywood and success. Fitzgerald’s works remain essential to American literature, capturing both the glamour and emptiness of the Roaring Twenties.