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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896–1940). This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, second printing (printed same month as the first edition) with Scribner’s shield. Publisher’s dark blue-green cloth, upper cover titles stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt (original ownership signature in pencil of William Rose Benét to ffep). A SUPERB COPY OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST WORK. Bruccoli A5. I. b. Provenance: from the library of William Rose Benét; the 1942 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry.