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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Male : Novelist. Married Zelda Sayre in 1920. He had a long affair with Sheila Graham. He died of a heart attack
Nationality : American Place of Birth : St Paul, Minnesota

Date of Birth : 1896 Date of Death : 1941 Age : 45

Education : Princeton (didn't graduate)
US FIRST EDITIONS
All Scribners unless stated
1915-1925
The Evil Eye : A Musical Comedy in Two Acts
(1915 The John Church Co, Cincinnati, NY & London)
Offered in 1999 at £1210
This Side of Paradise
(1920)
Flappers and Philosophers
(1920) - ss
The Beautiful and the Damned
(1922)
Tales of the Jazz Age
(1922) - ss
The Vegetable, or From President to Postman
(1923)
The Great Gatsby
(1925)
Offered in 1999 for £425 and amazingly in 2002 for £65.000 !
[Filmed in 1949 & 1974]

1926-1940
All the Sad Young Men
(1926) - ss
John Jackson's Arcady
(1928 Baker, NY)
Tender is the Night
(1934)
[Filmed in 1961]
Taps at Reveille
(1935) - ss

1941-1960
The Last Tycoon
(1941)
[Filmed in 1976]
The Crack Up
(1945 New Directions) - notebooks and unpublished letters
The Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1951)
Tender is the Night
(1951) - revised ed by Malcolm Cowley
Three Novels of F Sscott Fitzgerald
(1953 Scribner's Modern Standard Authors Series)
Afternoon of an Author : Uncollected Stories & Essays
(1957 Princeton Univ Library) - 1500
Afternoon of an Author : Uncollected Stories & Essays
(1958)
The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage
(1960 Random House) - 750

1961-1970
The Pat Hobby Stories
(1962)
The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1963)
The Apprentice Fiction of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1965 Rutgers Univ Press)
Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(1965 Princeton University Library)
Dearly Beloved
(1969 Windhover Press / Iowa UP) - Byron Burford
My Generation
(1970 PP, US) - 200

After 1971
In His Own Time : A Miscellany
(1971 Kent State Univ Press)
Dear Scott / Dear Max : Fitzgerald - Perkins Correspondence
(1971)
As Ever, Scott Fitz : Letters to his Literary Agent, Howard Ober 1919-1940
(1972 J B Lippincott)
The Basil and Josephine Stories
(1973)
Bits of Paradise : 21 Uncollected Stories
(1974) - with Zelda Fitzgerald
The Notebooks of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1978 Harcourt Brace)
The Price Was High
(1979 Harcourt Brace)
The Correspondence of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1980 Random House)
The Great Gatsby
(1980 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2000 signed. Fred Meyer
Tender is the Night
(1982 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed. Fred Meyer

UK FIRST EDITIONS
(All Collins unless stated)
This Side of Paradise
(1921)
Flappers and Philosophers
(1922)
The Beautiful and the Damned
(1922)
Tales of the Jazz Age
(1923)
The Great Gatsby
(1926 Chatto & Windus)
Tender is the Night
(1934 C & W)
The Crack Up
(1947 Grey Walls Press)
The Last Tycoon
(1949 Grey Walls Press)
Borrowed Time
(1951 Grey Walls Press)
Tender is the Night
(1953 GW Press) - revised ed by Malcolm Cowley
Afternoon of an Author : A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays
(1958 Bodley Head 16/-) - ss
The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald
(1958-1963 Bodley Head) - 6 vols
The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1964 Bodley Head)
The Pat Hobby Stories
(1967 Penguin)
Dear Scott/Dear Max
(1973 Cassell)
As Ever, Scott Fitz
(1973 Woburn)
Bits of Paradise
(1973 Bodley Head)
The Price Was High
(1979 Quartet)

READING
Charles E Shane : Scott Fitzgerald
(Univ of Minnesota American Authors pamphlet)
Zelda Fitzgerald : Save Me the Waltz
(1953 Grey Walls Press)
Matthew J Bruccoli : F Scott Fitzgerald - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1972 Pittsburgh UP)
(1980 Supplement)
Arthur Mizener : Scott Fitzgerald and His World
(1972 Thames & Hudson)
Aaron Latham : Crazy Sundays - F Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
(1972 Secker & Warburg)
Sheila Graham : The Real Scott Fitzgerald
(1976 W H Allen £4.95)
James R Mellow : Invented Lives
(1984)
Matthew J Bruccoli : Some Sort of Epic Grandeur - The Life of F Scott Fitzgerald
(1981 Hodder & Stoughton)
Andre le Vot : Scott Fitzgerald - A Biography
(1983 Doubleday) (1984 J Lane)
Jeffrey Meyers : Scott Fitzgerald - A Biography
(1994 Harper Collins NY) (1994 Macmillan)
Eleanor Lanahan : Zelda - An Illustrated Life - The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald
(1996 Abrams £19.95)
(Ed) Jackson R Bryer & Cathy W Barks : Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda - The Love Letters
of F Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
(2002 Bloomsbury £20)
Kendall Taylor : Sometimes Madness is Wisdom - Zelda and Scott
Fitzgerald - A Marriage
(2002 Robson Books £18.95)