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(8vo), blue cloth lettered in gilt,  decorative dust jacket. First Edition.

A scarce first printing, this copy is inscribed on the front flyleaf by Anne Crawford Warren to her husband, writer Charles Marquis “Bill” Warren, "in memory of Scott." The Warrens' bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Included as well is a small group of correspondence (1983-91) between Charles Warren and Nicholas Patrick Beck, an avid F. Scott Fitzgerald collector and scholar. This includes three handwritten notes and a photocopy of a Fitzgerald letter to Warren, dated May 15, 1939. 

Fitzgerald and Warren met in Baltimore in 1934 through the Vagabond Junior Players. Warren made several other unverified claims about their friendship, including that Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda formally had declared themselves his godparents. However, it is well known that he collaborated with Fitzgerald on the movie treatment for Tender is the Night. When agent Harold Ober was unable to sell it, Fitzgerald sent Warren to Hollywood to shop the treatment, providing him with letters of introduction to several studios and allowing him to live for a time at his Malibu home.  In addition, the group includes clips of Warren's newspaper obituary and a seven-page, typed document prepared by Beck in which he summarizes the stories Warren told him about his relationship with Fitzgerald, as well as with Ernest Hemingway. "Why such a talented, wealthy and enormously successful man felt the need to fabricate stories about his relationship with Fitzgerald, and an apparently non-existent relationship with Hemingway, probably went with him to his Arlington National Cemetery grave," Beck wrote.