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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by… Read more

Original Donald Brooks fashion design sketch of Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan for the 1974 film production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. One page pencil drawing with watercolor detail of a moonlit sky, the drawing features Farrow in full in "a wispy delicate dress of white and pale grey chiffon that moves against the body" as well as details of her family pearls, diamond bar capelet pin, pearl drop earring, and brocade t-strap dancing slipper with Donald Brooks' inscription in pencil, "Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan 'The Great Gatsby' Donald Brooks." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 27.5 inches by 22.5 inches. An excellent piece featuring the iconic Buchanan in the classic film The Great Gatsby. American fashion designer Donald Brooks designed over 3500 costumes for the stage and film; his awards include The New York Drama Critics Award, a Tony nomination, and the Emmy Award. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, the 1974 film version of The… Read more

New York: First Edition Library, 1989. This facsimile copy of the first edition copy has a terrific full page handwritten inscription and signed from actress Karen Black who co-starred in the 1974 film version opposite Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Inscribed: “In this great book, when the character that I play in the movie version, Myrtle Wilson, dies, her spirit is described by Fitzgerald as being so huge it rips her mouth when it escapes in death. I went to the director, Jack Clayton, and asked that my mouth be made-up to include the tears. He agreed. I won the Golden Globe for this film. Karen Black.” The scene in the book to which Ms. Black is referring is where Fitzgerald remarks: “the mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.” The book, itself, is an exact facsimile edition reproducing the first edition as published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1925 including the colorful… Read more

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. Fine. Fred Meyer (illustrator). First Edition. Introduction by Charles Scribner III, illustrated by Fred Meyer, who has signed the limitation page. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a shade of fading on the spine edge. Bound in full gray buckram stamped with a design by Deborah M. Evetts, protected by the original glassine wrapper. Includes the original laid-in LEC announcement. .

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. SIGNED on rear limitation page by illustrator Fred Meyer, #1074 of a limited edition of 2000; fine in very good slipcase; minor scuffing to slipcase with some rubbing to slipcase corners else a crisp square unmarked copy in publisher's custom slipcase; book is clean and bright, appears unread; glassine book jacket not present; first edition thus