FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). All the Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 8vo. [viii], 1-267, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's full green cloth, front board lettered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket (lower front flap also clipped, no textual loss). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE OF JACKET WITH NO BATTER TO WOMAN'S LIPS (lips aren't restored or color corrected). No batter to text on pp. 38 and 248, but light batter to p. 90 (unspecified issues as per Bruccoli). 

This is Fitzgerald's third short story collection, published the year after The Great Gatsby. It suffered by the inevitable comparison to his landmark novel, but, according to the New York Times, it is still worth reading: "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..."

Cloth rubbed, soiled, spine a bit sunned, lower corner of front board bumped, rear board (and last 27 or so pages dampstained at fore-edge), text toned and occasionally foxed, gutter after final blank starting; jacket restored and repaired, verso of jacket coated with acrylic (?) paint. Still, good. Housed in modern custom-made cloth clamshell case (minor bumping).