Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered evergreen cloth; a little offsetting to front endpapers, some bleed-through on rear pastedown and edge of endpaper from binding glue; most of front and rear panel, and a portion of spine from original dust jacket, vertical crease on front panel, scattered soiling, rear flap lacking; minimal professional cleaning and stabilization applied. Digital images provided upon request. New York: Scribner, 1925
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first edition, first printing of fitzgerald's masterpiece. Only a handful of copies in the rare, famous dust jacket designed by Francis Cugat have ever appeared on the market. Like this copy, most jackets are the second state indicated by the lower case "j" in Gatsby's name in line 14 of the rear panel corrected by hand with a rubber stamp capital "J" applied over it. In this copy, the capital J is curiously mis-stamped next to the lower case j and so close to the preceding word that it appears "thisJjay Gatsby." Worthy of restoration, and a solid copy of a title which, in a fine jacket, commands upwards of $100,000. Bruccoli AII.Ia; Connolly 48.