FIRST EDITION, Beloved Infidel, Sheilah Graham, 1958

New YorK: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. Very Good/Fair. Stated First Edition. First Printing. The book is tight with solid hinges and clean boards. Faint thin blue mark to top fore-edges.. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W photos. The dust jacket is unclipped (3.95) with a large chip to lower spine and front and shelf wear (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 338 pages. 5¾ x 8½ .Sheilah Graham paints an intimate yet objective portrait of Fitzgerald — turning out screenplays in late-1930s Hollywood to pay his debts, frequently drunk and increasingly despondent over his declining literary reputation. Strengthened and encouraged by Graham, Fitzgerald started his last and most ambitious novel, The Last Tycoon .

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