?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
IN AN EARLY DUST JACKET FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. 8vo, publisher's evergreen cloth stamped in gold and blind, unusually bright but for a few unobtrusive spots, slightly cocked; endleaves, preliminaries, and final leaf lightly toned, mild foxing to edges; early, though not the first issue dust jacket, designed by Cugat, chip at head of spine panel with loss of "The" in title, portions along the left fold, and portions of the imprint at foot, some loss to lower front panel and folds of all corners, some abrasion on verso and faint but visible dampstaining along spine panel verso and front flap recto. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925
first edition, first printing in an early dust jacket that retains price of $2.00 but with quotes from reviews on rear panel and flaps. Main first issue points include "chatter" for "echolalia" on page 60, "sick in tired" for "sickandtired" and page 205, and no period after "away" on page 165. Bruccoli A11.I.a.
