The Great Gatsby

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

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Hardcover. First edition, first issue. Contemporary gift inscription on the front pastedown (from "Frederic," and curiously in a handwriting similar to Fitzgerald's, although we by no means mean to imply that it is his), slight rubbing, a nice, near fine copy, with the spine lettering easily readable, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A handsome copy of this American classic. *Connolly 100*.

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Item #328302 The Great Gatsby. F. Scott FITZGERALD.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
birth name: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
born: 9/24/1896
died: 12/21/1940
nationality: USA

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Biography

American short-story writer and novelist known for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Fitzgerald, all but forgotten at the time of his death in 1940, is now one of the most eagerly collected American authors. His first two books This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers (both 1920) are very uncommon and very expensive, as is his best-known novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). Any jacketed first edition of the books published during his lifetime is bound to be at least moderately expensive, and even unjacketed copies could run into the high hundreds or low thousands if the spine lettering is bright and the book has no appreciable flaws.

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