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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Title: The Great Gatsby
Place: New York
Publisher: Scribner's
Date: 1925
Item # : 188999
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   51
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 720
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Description:
Dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lettering on front cover blind-stamped. First Edition, Second Issue.
Western and angling author, Zane Grey's copy, inscribed and signed in 1925 "To Zane Grey, from his wife, Dolly" and Zane Grey's bookplate with bird motif on the front endpapers. Second issue with "sickantired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, plus the other 5 textual variations noted by Bruccoli. Bruccoli A11.I.b.
Condition:
Slight scratches to front cover, gilt-lettering a bit flaked, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, leaning a little; else very good.
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