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FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise; The Great Gatsby; The Last Tycoon; The Beautiful and Damned

Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise; The Great Gatsby; The Last Tycoon; The Beautiful and Damned

London: The Folio Society, 2005

Illustrated by BROWN, Christopher

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FITZGERALD, F. Scott.  The complete illustrated collection of novels (published in uniform bindings) from one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century who so perfectly depicted the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age in his writings.  London: The Folio Society, 2005. First printings thus.  Each volume signed by English artist and illustrator Christopher Brown (who assisted the master of the linocut Edward Bawden) on the title page, assistant of the master of the linocut Edward Bawden, and personally dated and dedicated to Folio Society's Former Production Director Joseph Wilfrid Whitlock-Blundell. Including:

  1. Tender is the Night, A Romance. Illustrated by Christopher Brown [quotation from Keats]. 228 × 176 × 28 mm. Pp. [i–vi], [1–2] 3–299 [300]: [7] leaves of ‘plates’ (facing pp. 19, 50, 71, 106, 180, 199 and 279). Type: Caslon with Gill Sans and Futura Bold Condensed for display. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. Full pale blue artificial cloth with a pattern in black and silver by Brown; silver endleaves. Pale blue slip case. This was the first in a new series of Fitzgerald’s works. In addition to the ‘plates’ there is a frontispiece on page [ii]. Inscribed on the title page: "To Joe / with much thanks for your patience / Christopher Brown / 2005".
  2. The Beautiful and the Damned. Illustrated by Christopher Brown [quotation from Anthony Patch]. 228 × 176 × 30 mm. Pp. [i–x], [1–2] 3–324 [325–326]: [8] leaves of ‘plates’ (facing pp. 13, 45, 124, 146, 204, 232, 316 and 323). Type: Caslon with Gill Sans and Futura Bold Condensed for display. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. In addition to the ‘plates’ there is a frontispiece on page [ii]. Inscribed on the title page: "And also for Joe / Christopher Brown / 2005".
  3. The Great Gatsby and The Last Tycoon, An Unfinished Novel. Illustrated by Christopher Brown. 228 × 177 × 29 mm. Pp. [i–viii], [1–2] 3–300 [301–306]: [11] leaves of ‘plates’. Type: Caslon with Gill Sans and Futura Bold Condensed for display. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. In addition to the ‘plates’ there is a frontispiece on page [ii]. This title was the ‘Castaway’s Choice’ of Peter Blake. Inscribed on the title page: "A Manhattan for Joe / Christopher Brown / 2005".
  4. This Side of Paradise. Illustrated by Christopher Brown [quotations from Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde]. 228 × 176 × 29 mm. Pp. [i–x], [1–2] 3–246: [8] leaves of ‘plates’ (facing pp. 9, 59, 83, 96, 140, 204, 221 and 245). Type: Caslon with Gill Sans and Futura Bold Condensed for display. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. In addition to the ‘plates’ there is a frontispiece on page [ii]. Inscribed on the title page: "For Joe / Christopher Brown / 2005".

Near-fine copies, with bindings square and firm, and pages clean and uninscribed, with only the odd spot of expected (external) wear commensurate with one or two careful readings. In like slipcases with that exhibit a little shelf-wear. A really love set signed by the illustrator and from the library of Folio Society's Former Production Director (for more than 20 years) Joe Whitlock-Blundell.

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