Tales of the Jazz Age
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
-
Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
This is a nice condition copy of "Tales of the Jazz Age" by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. 1922 1st edition (with "Published September 1922" printed on the copyright page); Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. The book is a collection of 11 short stories including one of Fitzgerald's better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - also included are "The Jelly-Bean," "The Camel's Back," "May Day," "Porcelain and Pink," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Tarquin of Cheapside," "O'Russet Witch!," "The Lees of Happiness," "Mr. Icky," and "Jemina." (There is a brief synopsis of each story below the title in the table of contents.)
Condition:
Light stain at the bottom half of the front cover and at the bottom half of the back cover. There is a tiny nick to the cloth at the bottom-right edge of the spine. The outer edges of the boards each have a few tiny cloth tears. Tiny cloth tears to 2 of the cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Nice interior - the text pages are clean with no writing or stains, and only a small foxing spot at the upper-outer corner of pages 20 & 21. There is a light, diagonal crease starting at the top of the page down to the bottom of the page from the front end paper to about page 29. The front end paper has "Rouclere His Book R.P.I. '26" written in pen (a bit of the ink has bled onto the facing pastedown); "1.75" is written in pencil on the rear pastedown. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.
Synopsis
Tales of the Jazz Age is an anthology of nineteen short stories by renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar," and "Love in the Night."
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7280
- Title
- Tales of the Jazz Age
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- f scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby, tender is the night, this side of paradise, the beautiful and damned, the crack up, flappers and philosophers, benjamin buttons, tales of the jazz age, bernice bobs her hair, the vegetable, the ice palace, pat hobby s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
Terms of Sale
CraigsClassics
About the Seller
CraigsClassics
About CraigsClassics
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.