[FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT] | A Group of Four Books owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT]

A Group of Four Books owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dye, Eva Emery. The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1903. 8vo. Title printed in red and back; some minor toning and soiling, a few chips and closed tears to margins. Original brown cloth, cover and spine lettered and pictorially stamped in black and yellow, inscribed on the front free endpaper "Scott Fitzgerald | from Mrs. (?) | X'mas 1904", and signed by Fitzgerald (presumably as an adolescent) "Scott Fitzgerald" with four "F"s beneath; extremities rubbed with some fraying. — Hichens, Robert. The Fruitful Vine. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911. 8vo. Some toning. Original green cloth, cover and spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, remnant of Mary "Molly" McQuillan Fitzgerald's booklabel to front free endpaper; extremities rubbed with some fraying, some staining, spine sunned. — O'Mara, Pat. The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1933. 8vo. One or two stray spots, minor marginal finger-soiling. Original green cloth, spine gilt lettered, inscribed by O'Mara on the front free endpaper "To my good friend Scott Fitzgerald, | for his mighty fine books and | the Irish in him and them, | with all good wishes | Pat O'Mara, Aug 25—1934"; extremities rubbed with some fraying, spine sunned. — Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe. New York: Charles E. Merrill Co., 1905. 8vo. Some scattered staining. Original green-grey cloth, cover and spine lettered and pictorially stamped in dark green, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Edward Fitzgerald "Scott Fitzgerald | from Father- | March. 1908."; extremities rubbed with some fraying, some staining to edges. 

This lot represents a quartet of books that F. Scott Fitzgerald retained in his personal library, for, in some instances, nearly 30 years. At some point in the mid- to late 1930s, Fitzgerald gave the present volumes to Arthur Musgrave, an aspiring writer he befriended while living in Baltimore (see lots XXX).   

PROVENANCE:

Arthur Musgrave