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This Side of Paradise (Presentation copy)

This Side of Paradise (Presentation copy) by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
This Side of Paradise (Presentation copy)
Author
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Later printing. Very Good. Inscribed by Fitzgerald to Carma Freeman on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes ('Now you just go right to sleep') from Old Insomniac Fitzgerald to his old childhood nurse, Mrs. Freeman." A Very Good copy. Publisher's blindstamped dark blue-green cloth. Some edgewear and fraying. Minor toning to endpapers. This copy of This Side of Paradise is a rare survival of the summer of 1934, one of the most difficult periods of Fitzgerald's life. At the time, Zelda was hospitalized at Sheppard-Pratt while Fitzgerald himself spent the summer in and out of Johns Hopkins Hospital. As Fitzgerald's friend, H.L. Mencken, wrote in his diary in June of that year: "the case of F. Scott Fitzgerald has become distressing. He is boozing in a wild manner and has become a nuisance. His wife, Zelda, who has been insane for years, is now confined at the Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, and he is living in Park Avenue with his little daughter, Scottie." While out of the hospital and recuperating at home, Fitzgerald's chilhood nurse Carma Kaufman Freeman cared for him. He inscribed his copy of This Side of Paradise to Freeman during that summer, employing her comforting phrase ("Now you just go right to sleep"), a line Fitzgerald would later echo in his 1936 essay "The Crack-Up." First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise is Fitzgerald's somewhat autobiographical debut novel about a midwestern boy who goes east for his education at Princeton. Cobbled together from several bits and pieces of writing and rushed to print in an attempt by the lovestruck twenty-two-year-old Fitzgerald to entice Zelda with a life of literary celebrity, the couple wed the week after publication and began life among the cosmopolitan literati traversing Europe after the war. Yet, to believe Fitzgerald's assertion that the book was only "a Romance and a Reading List" is to oversimplify its central themes. "When Amory Blaine proclaimed all wars fought, all gods dead, all faiths in man shaken, the generation emerging in 1920 thought it a battle cry, a celebration of license and indulgence, and made This Side of Paradise their bible" (Gross). In this sense, the novel not only launched Fitzgerald's career and allowed for his marriage, it also founded the key tensions that would shape all of his future work - the push and pull between being a member of the Lost Generation with all its cynicism, and his deep moralism and his "need to impose order on a chaotic world...to struggle with love as both a unifying and divisive force" (Gross). Very Good.
A Vision for America (Signed limited edition)

A Vision for America (Signed limited edition) by Ford, Gerald R.

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
A Vision for America (Signed limited edition)
Author
Ford, Gerald R.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. Fine. Number 25 of 100 copies specially bound (of 500 copies total, signed by the 38th President of The United States, Gerald R. Ford). Large octavo (9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 251 x 162 mm.). [16] pp. Title-page printed in blue and gilt, portrait frontispiece. Publisher's full blue calf, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. This publication records the text of Ford's address to the Republican National Convention, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, July 14, 1980. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913-2006) served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, replacing Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal. During his time in office "Ford continued as he had in his Congressional days to view himself as 'a moderate in domestic affairs, a conservative in fiscal affairs, and a dyed-in-the-wool internationalist in foreign affairs' " (White House). Fine.
PSALMS 45:5-12, AND 46:1-4

PSALMS 45:5-12, AND 46:1-4 by AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A SMALL PSALTER IN LATIN, WITH DELIGHTFUL MARGINALIA

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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PSALMS 45:5-12, AND 46:1-4
Author
AN ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A SMALL PSALTER IN LATIN, WITH DELIGHTFUL MARGINALIA
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
France, late 13th century. 125 x 88 mm. (4 7/8 x 3 1/2"). Single column, 15 lines in a gothic book hand. Attractively matted. Folio number in red, several line enders in gold with blue penwork, 10 one-line initials in gold on blue and pink ground, one two-line initial painted pink and filled with blue and orange acanthus on gilt ground, verso with a three-quarter border branching from the larger initial, composed of pink and blue curling lines accentuated with gold spikes, bezants, and painted ivy leaves, UPPER BRANCH TERMINATING IN A WONDERFUL HYBRID CREATURE WITH THE FACE OF A MAN AND THE BODY OF AN ORANGE BEAST, AND THE LOWER BRANCH INCORPORATING ANOTHER FACE WITH A LONG BEARD. From the collection of Joseph Pope (his MS Bergendal 116), about whom see below. ◆A little soiling and staining along edges of vellum and a couple of small marks in lower margin verso, but in excellent condition overall, the paint especially bright and fresh. From the distinguished collection of Canadian financier Joseph Pope (1921-2010), this charming leaf comes from a small-format Psalter intended for private use, and features two amusing drolleries incorporated into the marginal design. Pope's collection was sold by Sotheby's on 5 July 2011, where this leaf appeared as part of lot 115; it was later listed in Quaritch Catalogue 1422 (no. 88), which states that "according to [Pope's] note, this leaf was found tipped in to a much later Book of Hours (his MS Bergendal 64--produced in the southern Netherlands for a southern French patron during the first half of the 15th century--at f. 94, the middle of the Penitential Psalms); the manuscript was acquired by Pope at Sotheby's sale of 6 December 1983 (lot 79).".

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