All the Sad Young Men.
1926. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
8vo, 267 pp. Original green cloth, blindstamped front board, gilt-stamped backstrip, gilt quite bright, cloth clean. A very good copy.
§ First edition, earliest printing with no battered type and the Scribner seal on verso of title. Unobtrusive signature at front and price $2, probably purchased shortly after publication. The New York Times wrote, "The publication of this volume of short stories might easily have been an anti-climax after the perfection and success of 'The Great Gatsby' of last Spring. A novel so widely praised — by people whose recognition counts — is stiff competition. It is even something of a problem for a reviewer to find new and different words to properly grace the occasion. It must be said that the collection as a whole is not sustained to the high excellence of 'The Great Gatsby,' but it has stories of fine insight and finished craft." Item #123877
Price: $750.00