The Crack-up
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Edmund Wilson (editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1945. Original quarter cloth over patterned boards in unclipped ($3.50) mylar protected dust-jacket, paper spine label, top edge dark red-brown, (9.5 x 6 inches). First Edition/First Edition with title page printed in black and brick red, with colophon. Only 2240 copies printed, edited by Edmund Wilson with 8 of Fitzgerald's later autobiographical pieces and 149 pages of notes, plus letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos. Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson. Slight sunning to jacket spine, and quarter inch chip at the head of dust jacket spine as well as some minor chipping to heel and edges.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005061
- Title
- The Crack-up
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Edmund Wilson (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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