THE CRACK-UP: With Other Uncollected Pieces, Notebooks, and Unpublished Letters Together with Letters From Fitzgerald to Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos; and Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Edmund Wilson. New York: A New Directions Paperback, (1956). First Paperback edition, first printing. Statement "First published as New Directions paperback No. 54 in 1956" to the copyright page. A decently preserved collectible in the elusive first printing. Two mild vertical crease lines to the spine, modern mystery author's address label to the inside front cover, pages age-toning as usual, else nicely square, fairly tight and very good in stiff-card wraps with Lee Hall front cover art; code 54 to the spine, and original printed $1.45 price still intact to the front cover. Tall mass market paperback. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK BOOKS THANKS!