FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1920. 8vo, original green cloth, ends of spine and three fore-corners worn, front inner hinge weak, rear inner hinge repaired . FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, of Fitzgerald's first book, AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Dear Mr. [Christian] Gauss. Behold the famous American 'novel about flappers written for philosophers.' 'Read 'em an' weep!' F. Scott Fitzgerald, March 20th, 1920." This is a very early inscription (publication date not being until March 26) in the novel about Princeton to Fitzgerald's favorite professor at the University; the inscription also prefigures the title of the author's second book, Flappers and Philosophers , a collection of short stories issued in September 1920. It was Gauss, Professor of Romance Literature (and later Dean of the College), that Fitzgerald showed the manuscript of the first version of This Side of Paradise before he left Princeton in 1917. Gauss, however, persuaded Fitzgerald not to try to publish it. Fitzgerald rewrote the novel twice, the last version being the one published by Scribner's. The recipient of this copy "was certainly one of the very few Princeton professors to capture Fitzgerald's attention and esteem. [Gauss] first influenced those students whose minds were already open to the world of ideas, such young men as [John Peale] Bishop and especially Edmund Wilson...As Wilson remarked, however [in an an essay on Gauss in his The Shores of Light ], Gauss also reached more frivolous minds, notably Fitzgerald's: 'Less directly, perhaps, but no less certainly, the development of F. Scott Fitzgerald from This Side of Paradise to The Great Gatsby , from a loose and subjective conception of the novel to an organized impersonal one, was also due to Christian's influence. He made us all want to write something in which every word, every cadence, every detail, should perform a definite function in producing an intense effect'" -- André Le Vot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Biography (New York, 1983, p. 37). Bruccoli A5.1.a.
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1920. 8vo, original green cloth, ends of spine and three fore-corners worn, front inner hinge weak, rear inner hinge repaired . FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, of Fitzgerald's first book, AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Dear Mr. [Christian] Gauss. Behold the famous American 'novel about flappers written for philosophers.' 'Read 'em an' weep!' F. Scott Fitzgerald, March 20th, 1920." This is a very early inscription (publication date not being until March 26) in the novel about Princeton to Fitzgerald's favorite professor at the University; the inscription also prefigures the title of the author's second book, Flappers and Philosophers , a collection of short stories issued in September 1920. It was Gauss, Professor of Romance Literature (and later Dean of the College), that Fitzgerald showed the manuscript of the first version of This Side of Paradise before he left Princeton in 1917. Gauss, however, persuaded Fitzgerald not to try to publish it. Fitzgerald rewrote the novel twice, the last version being the one published by Scribner's. The recipient of this copy "was certainly one of the very few Princeton professors to capture Fitzgerald's attention and esteem. [Gauss] first influenced those students whose minds were already open to the world of ideas, such young men as [John Peale] Bishop and especially Edmund Wilson...As Wilson remarked, however [in an an essay on Gauss in his The Shores of Light ], Gauss also reached more frivolous minds, notably Fitzgerald's: 'Less directly, perhaps, but no less certainly, the development of F. Scott Fitzgerald from This Side of Paradise to The Great Gatsby , from a loose and subjective conception of the novel to an organized impersonal one, was also due to Christian's influence. He made us all want to write something in which every word, every cadence, every detail, should perform a definite function in producing an intense effect'" -- André Le Vot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Biography (New York, 1983, p. 37). Bruccoli A5.1.a.
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