The Great Gatsby. by FITZGERALD, F. Scott - 1925

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1925. With part of the first issue jacket First edition, first printing, first state, with the rear panel of the rare first issue jacket pasted on the inside rear cover. Although it did not sell well on publication, The Great Gatsby has come to be regarded as one of the all-time great American novels, perhaps the defining cultural artefact of the Jazz Age. The first state points are: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, "away" on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and in blind to front board, fore edge untrimmed. A hint of wear to corners, very faint water stains to spine and front board, the binding otherwise sound and bright, light toning to contents as often, else internally clean; a fresh copy. Bruccoli A11.I.a.