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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.
8vo. Original dark green cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine (1 ¾” stain on upper cover, some minor wear at extreme ends, joints a bit over-opened at half-title and final page). Provenance: indecipherable ownership signature on front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with “chatter” for “echolalia” on p. 60, “northern” for “southern” on p. 119, “sick in tired” for “sickantired” on p. 205, and “Union Street station” for “Union Station” on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48.