Lot 65
  • 65

Fitzgerald, F Scott

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner's, 1925
  • cloth, paper, ink
8vo. Original blind and gilt-stamped green cloth in original dust jacket with the "J" on rear panel hand-corrected; a fine copy of the book in a jacket showing restoration to spine, edges and bottom of the front panel, but an attractive copy. Morocco folding case.

Literature

Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly 48

Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue of perhaps the most iconic of all American novels.

"(...) it remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it..." (Connolly)

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