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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.
8vo. Original dark green cloth lettered in blind, gilt–lettered spine (spine ever so slightly skewed and very lightly sunned, few faint stains on rear cover, a touch of rubbing at foot, light edgewear to front free endpaper at foot, else fine). Provenance: [indecipherable] S. Baber (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. A BRIGHT COPY. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48.