Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!. A Musical Comedy in Two Acts. Presented by The Princeton University Triangle Club 1914-1915. Dialogue and Characters by Walker M. Ellis, '15. Plot and Lyrics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, '17. Cincinnati, New York & London: The John Church Co., 1914.
First edition. Sold at performances (the opening performance was December 19, 1914).
Folio. [2, blank], [1]-91, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's original white boards, front board decoratively printed and lettered in black and orange, orange cloth backstrip. Minor wear to spine ends, some very minor thumbsoiling to covers (much less than usually seen), lower corner of front board neatly chipped at an angle with minor loss, other corners very lightly rubbed. An exceptionally clean and bright copy - one of the nicest we've ever seen.
This is the earliest obtainable work by Fitzgerald (it was only preceded by a privately-printed script for the same show made expressly for the cast and crew, in an unknown number of copies). According to Bruccoli, this show was entirely written by Fitzgerald, with revisions by Ellis (who took full credit). All of the lyrics are by Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the most important American novelists and short-story writers of the twentieth-century, and the leading chronicler of the "Jazz Age," a term he coined. He finished four novels (including one of the most famous American novels of all time, The Great Gatsby, 1925) as well as several short story collections. Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi shows the budding genius of a true literary giant.
Bruccoli, A2.
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3402
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2,900