[Rarebooks] FS: F. Scott Fitzgerald's ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN, 1926, First Edition in dustwrapper

[Charles Agvent]

One of two early Fitzgerald titles in dustwrapper in our new catalog 
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN. New York: Charles 
Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Fitzgerald's first book published 
after his masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY which had a print run of 20,870 
copies while this book had a run of less than half of that number: 
10,100 published. Includes 9 stories, among them "The Rich Boy," which 
scholar Matthew Bruccoli described as "an extension of THE GREAT GATSBY, 
enlarging the examination of the effects of wealth on character." The 
story contains one of Fitzgerald's most famous passages: "Let me tell 
you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They 
possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft 
where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, 
unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They 
think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we 
had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves." 
Bruccoli A 12.I.a . Text block cracked before the half-title page with a 
small piece lacking from the front free endpaper where it somehow was 
glued down to the pastedown. Still a Near Fine, bright copy in a near 
Very Good, unrestored example of the uncommon dustwrapper that has some 
light green stains on the spine with light chipping at the head. The 
front panel is neatly separated from the spine . (#016454) $2,750.00

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