Penguin Books, 1967, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, First Paperback
introduction by Arnold Gingrich and appendix a revised edition of A Patriotic Short. Photographic card cover with the yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black-and-white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear book panel. "In The Pat Hobby Stories Scott Fitzgerald took a wryly self-mocking look at himself in his role as Hollywood hack (and fading literary celebrity). Pat Hobby is the seediest of them all, they once-talented charmer, reduced (for instance) to showing tourists the homes of movie stars who won't talk to him any more. Hobby's antics are sad and hilarious and essential reading for all Fitzgerald and admirers." -- from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with a large crease to the lower right hand corner of the front panel. Rubbing to the book panels with browning of the text block edges and pages. Fox into the top edge of the endpapers and previous owner's name to the top edge of the half title page. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 167, [7]pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0118447.
introduction by Arnold Gingrich and appendix a revised edition of A Patriotic Short. Photographic card cover with the yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black-and-white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author to the rear book panel. "In The Pat Hobby Stories Scott Fitzgerald took a wryly self-mocking look at himself in his role as Hollywood hack (and fading literary celebrity). Pat Hobby is the seediest of them all, they once-talented charmer, reduced (for instance) to showing tourists the homes of movie stars who won't talk to him any more. Hobby's antics are sad and hilarious and essential reading for all Fitzgerald and admirers." -- from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with a large crease to the lower right hand corner of the front panel. Rubbing to the book panels with browning of the text block edges and pages. Fox into the top edge of the endpapers and previous owner's name to the top edge of the half title page. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 167, [7]pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0118447.