Tales of the Jazz Age.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Item Number: 126477

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

First edition of Fitzgerald’s iconic collection, with eleven stories including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” basis for the award-winning 2008 film. Octavo, original green cloth, titles to the spine in gilt. Accompanied by a typed two page letter signed by American editor Maxwell Perkins on Charles Scribner’s Sons letterhead. Best remembered for discovering authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and James Jones, Maxwell Perkins met Hemingway through F. Scott Fitzgerald after facilitating the publication of Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise. In near fine condition with some light shelfwear to the extremities. One of 8,000 copies with “and” on p. 232, on line 6. Bruccoli A9.I.a. Bruccoli & Clark I:132. Smiley, 46. A very nice example.

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair. Includes the story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for the film bearing the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.