The Beautiful And Damned
£950.00
The Beautiful And Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This copy was published in 1950 by The Grey Walls Press, London.
Bound in duck egg blue leather with raised bands on spine with title/ author labels.
The embossing of black on coloured leather onlays is used for the artwork on the front cover, to evoke the image of Gloria Gilbert, the beautiful, enigmatic wife of Anthony Comstock Patch. She is a walking paradox, dazzling yet elusive, fiercely independent yet deeply aimless, and intoxicating to everyone around her. This uncanny image conjures up the hedonistic times of 1920’s glittering New York.
Delicate hand made marbled endpapers and hand sewn end bands complete this entrancing, bespoke, one off creation. The book comes with its own cloth covered protective slipcase.
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Description
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Set in New York City, the novel’s plot follows a young artist Anthony Comstock Patch and his flapper wife, Gloria Gilbert, who wreck themselves “on the shoals of dissipation” while partying to excess at the dawn of the Jazz Age. As Fitzgerald’s sophomore novel, the work focuses on the swinish behaviour and glittering excesses of the American idle rich in the mid-1910s heyday of New York’s café society.
Fitzgerald loosely modelled the young libertine characters of Anthony Comstock Patch on himself, and Gloria Gilbert on his newlywed spouse Zelda Fitzgerald. The novel draws on the early years of Fitzgerald’s disappointing marriage in New York City after the meteoric success of the author’s first novel, ‘This Side of Paradise’. At the time of their wedding in 1920, Fitzgerald claimed neither he nor Zelda loved each other, and the early years of their marriage resembled a friendship.
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