The Great Gatsby -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
An elegantly bound first edition of this landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’ ‘Gatsby 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’. – Cyril Connolly.
Reference: Bruccoli, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography A11.I.a. Connolly, Modern Movement 48.
First issue points - (1) page 60, line 16: ‘chatter’ instead of ‘echolalia’ (2) page 119, line 22, ‘northern’ instead of ‘southern’ (3) page 165, line 16: ‘it's’ (4) page 205, lines 9-10: ‘sick in tired’ instead of ‘sickantired’ (5) page 211, lines 7-8; ‘Union Street station’ instead of ‘Union Station’ (6) Charles Scribner's Sons [Publishers] logo [seal] on copyright page.
Octavo (binding size 19.6x14.2cm), pp. [2] [6] 218 [2]. Finely bound in recent full green morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt, single gilt filet borders to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, matching marbled endpapers. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112358 Price: HK$ 38,000
An elegantly bound first edition of this landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’ ‘Gatsby 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’. – Cyril Connolly.
Reference: Bruccoli, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography A11.I.a. Connolly, Modern Movement 48.
First issue points - (1) page 60, line 16: ‘chatter’ instead of ‘echolalia’ (2) page 119, line 22, ‘northern’ instead of ‘southern’ (3) page 165, line 16: ‘it's’ (4) page 205, lines 9-10: ‘sick in tired’ instead of ‘sickantired’ (5) page 211, lines 7-8; ‘Union Street station’ instead of ‘Union Station’ (6) Charles Scribner's Sons [Publishers] logo [seal] on copyright page.
Octavo (binding size 19.6x14.2cm), pp. [2] [6] 218 [2]. Finely bound in recent full green morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt, single gilt filet borders to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, matching marbled endpapers. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112358 Price: HK$ 38,000