8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine leaned, slight wear to extremities, a few light stains, hinges just starting); in a facsimile dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "Published April, 1920" with Scribner's seal and no subsequent printings on the copyright page. Fitzgerald's autobiographical novel, set at Princeton, secured his place as the voice of his generation. The "defiant tone [of Tales of the Jazz Age] had the same powerful impact on rebellious postwar youth as Salinger's Catcher in the Rye did in 1951, and it became a Bible and guidebook as the Twenties began to roar " (Meyers, p.56). Bruccoli A5.1.a.

[With:] FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. London et al: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1921]. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in red (lacking dust jacket, slight wear to extremities, some minor scuffing, hinges just starting). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "Copyright 1921" on the copyright page with no subsequent printings. Bruccoli A5.2.a.