The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
First edition of Fitzgerald's second novel, a satire of the Jazz Age with the plot following the young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipation" while excessively partying at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age. First state without the publisher's colophon to the title page (Bruccoli A8.1.a).
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Publisher's original green cloth, front board stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; pp. (x), 449. A very good copy. Binding remains sturdy, light shelfwear and rubbing to boards with a few minor instances of discoloration to front board, a few white flecks to rear board. Internally, pages show scattered foxing, free of any markings. A presentable copy, protected in a removable archival jacket.