Save Me the Waltz. by FITZGERALD, Zelda - 1932

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1932. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love First edition, first printing, of the author's first published novel, written in the spring of 1932 at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, where Zelda stayed after suffering her second nervous breakdown. It offers an account of her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald and makes use of some of the same raw material which he later drew on in his own novel, Tender is the Night (1934). The dust jacket was designed by Cleo Damianakes (1885-1979), known as "Cleon" or "Cleonike", who also illustrated the jackets for Scott's short story collection All the Sad Young Men and Ernest Hemingway's novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Provenance: from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in purple. With dust jacket, designed by Cleo Damianakes. Neat ownership signature of one Margaret Rayon, dated 1937, to front free endpaper. Light damp staining to cloth, corresponding bleeding of red colour to rear panel of dust jacket, hint of fading to jacket spine, notwithstanding, an exceptional example, bright and unclipped.