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Lot 30

F. Scott Fitzgerald Senior Year College Yearbook. Nassau Herald: Class of 1917 Princeton University.

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott] F. Scott Fitzgerald Senior Year College Yearbook. Nassau Herald: Class of 1917 Princeton University. Princeton, 1918. Gilt-lettered brown cloth. Fold-out class photo, printed on both sides, dedication frontis. under tissue. 363pp. Rubbed and a little shaken, spine sunned, owned and annotated by a classmate (likely Robert Leighton Crawford, whose name is signed the flyleaf) who notes his classmates? deaths marginally, including Fitzgerald?s. Fitzgerald is depicted in the fold-out class photo as well as profiled and pictured on pp. 99-100. In the Class Elections section, Fitzgerald polls last (in a tie) for ?Most Brilliant,? receiving two votes; fifth (tie) for ?Prettiest?; seventh for ?Wittiest,? and third (tie) for ?Thinks he is (wittiest).? Others appearing the yearbook: John Peale Bishop, Ludlow Fowler (best man at Fitzgerald?s 1920 wedding to Zelda Sayre).