The Last Tycoon an Unfinished Novel Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Very Good] [Hardcover]

8vo. [8], ix-xi, [3], 3-476 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; red topstain. Edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson. Bruccoli A19.I.a. Mark My Words, ""The Last Tycoon"" (private blog). This volume contains the last literary project Fitzgerald worked on before his death from alcoholism. It was one of the publications that served to reinvigorate Fitzgerald's reputation, as before this he had not published a book in five years. Shortly after this book's publication, interest in The Great Gatsby skyrocketed, so much so that American GI's were issued copies to take with them to the European front. Fitzgerald's unfinished work explores the tension between art and commerce, based on the true story of two dueling executives at MGM studios. The spine rubbed, gutters browned with age; jacket is price-clipped with a few chips and tears.