The Great Gatsby.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby.
First Edition of The Great Gatsby; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
New York: Charles Scribners, 1925.
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First edition, first printing with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away” on p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo, original dark green cloth. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a few small chips to the crown and the foot of the spine, with lowercase “j” in “jay Gatsby” on the back panel, hand-corrected in ink. An exceptional example.
The dust jacket is not only one of the most recognizable and iconic book covers of the twentieth century, but it is also one of the most rare. The cover art was entitled "Celestial Eyes" and was designed by artist Francis Cugat, who was not well-known at the time. Fitzgerald, however, fell in love with the design and actually wrote a number of things into the novel to relate it to the proposed cover.
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