The Beautiful and The Damned. New York: Scribner’s, 1922. First Edition, Second State. Scribner’s seal device on the copyright page. Publisher’s green cloth boards, title lettered in blind to upper cover & in gilt to spine. Age-toning to contents pages, but overall a nice bright copy.

Second state printing with two advertisment pages in the back for the twelfth printing of This Side Of Paradise and the fifth printing of Flappers And Philosophers.

Fitzgerald’s second novel, it followed the smash success of This Side of Paradise and preceded his masterwork, The Great Gatsby. The critical and popular response was mixed, with even Fitzgerald himself calling it “a bitter and insolent book.”