Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Softcover. Fine. Advance excerpt, preceding all other issues (English and American). Large octavo consisting of mimeographed sheets printed rectos only, stapled into printed card covers. Printed letter from Cape's publicity director laid in with order form. Vignettes inspired by the author's profound nostalgia for the halcyon days of his early career. This excerpt prints Chapter One, and Chapter Seventeen, about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rare.

A Moveable Feast is a memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book describes the author's apprenticeship as a young writer while he was married to his first wife, Hadley Richardson. Hemingway's memoir consists of various personal accounts, observations, and stories by Hemingway. It includes Hemingway's recollections of other writers living in Paris, like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.