Scott Fitzgerald - Presentation copy WITH author correspondence and source's annotations

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. xi, 364. Frontis. portrait photo. Illustrated with a section of b&w photo reproductions on coated paper. With notes, chronology, sources and index. Black cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt and green. Edges minimally discolored and lower corners slightly bumped, pencil annotations by author's source. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket, price unclipped: spine ends chipped, edge-wear. Author correspondence with source Mrs. Alfred Schweppe, a childhood friend of Fitzgerald in St. Paul, is laid in. This copy belonged to Dorothey Greene Schweppe who as a child was a neighbor and friend of Fitzgerald. On the front endpaper is a penciled note, apparently in the author's hand, with page references to "information furnished by your mother" and the source credit. A few pages are dog-eared and several have pencil annotations in Dorothey's hand. Additionally, laid in are:

A Schweppe pencil sketch of the building and street where Fitzgerald resided in St. Paul.

Four TLS from Turnbull dated May 1958 (reference to Fitzgerald mentioning Schweppe in his "Thoughtbook" at age 14; letter "peppered with insight;" and "I have found out that you played the following roles in Fitzgerald's plays ... ," one with the original envelope.

A four-page photostat of TLS Schweppe's recollections of Fitzgerald in reply to Turnbull's questions, dated May 26, 1958.

A four-page ALS Schweppe to Turnbull dated January 24, 1959 with additional recollections.

Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve; correspondence in archival sleeves with acid-free backings.