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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Title: The Great Gatsby
Place: New York
Publisher: Scribner's
Date: 1925
Item # : 186430
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   41
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 1020
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Description:
Dark green cloth, original gilt on spine flaked away, lettering on front cover blind-stamped. First Edition, First Issue.
First edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great masterpiece: considered the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature. First issue with "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, plus the other 5 textual variations noted by Bruccoli. Bruccoli A11.I.a.
Condition:
Soiling, shelf wear, leaning, scattered stains, white spot to lower front cover; occasional foxing, gift inscription dated 1925; else good.
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