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Fitzgerald, F. Scott : The Crack Up in Esquire Magazine

Esquire, Inc., Chicago, 1936

Folio. Entire issue, February, 1936, in original colorful pictorial wraps, light to moderate general wear, spine rolled, and creased along edge, rear wrap separated about 1.5-inches at spine head, a decent copy overall; please see pictures. The first appearance of this classic piece. Issue also includes the Ernest Hemingway story, The Tradesman's Return, that revised would become Part II of To Have And Have Not, published by Scribner's, 1937. From the opening paragraph, "Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work -- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from the outside -- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within -- that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick -- the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed.". Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft cover

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