New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to the endpapers. Fine and bright in a Very Good, unrestored example of the uncommon dustwrapper that has a light stain at the bottom portion of the spine and an inch-deep chip at the top of the front cover obliterating most of the "T" in the word "The". Fitzgerald's last book published before his masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY which had a print run of 20,870 copies while this book had only 7,650 published. As with the better known GATSBY, this title, Fitzgerald's only published full-length play, also explores the American Dream but here with more comic intent and more pathetic results. The main character, Jerry Frost, strives to be President of the United States, if he is unable to make it as a postman. The quotation Fitzgerald places on the center of the title page sums it up: "Any man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has -- he's nothing more or less than a vegetable." Bruccoli A 10.I.a

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 016453
Title: THE VEGETABLE OR FROM PRESIDENT TO POSTMAN
Author: FITZGERALD, F. Scott
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Slight foxing to the endpapers. Fine and bright in a Very Good, unrestored example of the uncommon dustwrapper that has a light
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1923
Keywords: Modern Firsts, Early Dustwrappers, Theater, Modern First Editions, Plays, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bookseller catalogs: Early Dustwrappers;

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