(Fitzgerald's unquestionably penultimate book). Reviews on front inner flap by. Mary Colum, Gilbert Seldes & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. This copy was INSCRIBED by. (Fitzgerald died December 21, 1940).
Shirley Chidsey was divorced from Donald Chidsey in. Shirley Chidsey lived in Tahiti for a time. Typing and editing for the writing team, Nordhoff and Hall. Their first novel, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. Was the basis for the Clark Gable and Charles Laughton film released in 1935. Returning from Tahiti in 1940, Shirley Chidsey traveled to Santa Barbara. California in June to visit with F. Scott Fitzgerald; and here is where. Fitzgerald inscribed this book to her. Sister of Shirley Armitage Chidsey Bridgewater. Okay, here goes: the book's condition. Inscription clear and concise on front endpaper. Cloth faded, showing moisture spots; gold print. Lower right-hand corner of front cover chipped. With a noticeable bit of corner missing.Of inner lower left-hand inside gutter area. Of first five or six pages.
Dust jacket tattered; old tape removed; and. Somewhere along the years, acid-free.
Neutral pH conservation work performed on back. Resulting in a reasonably appearing example of. The second printing dust jacket. The third printing of this book is evident on Page 320. Line 17, wherein, "Charles Warren, " becomes.Shirley Chidsey married William Bridgewater after World War II. Bridgewater was the editor of the Columbia Encyclopedia. Alfred Knopf, and in this position met such.
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