Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 1

Fitzgerald, F. Scott | "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Auction Closed

June 25, 02:20 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925

8vo. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, spine gilt. Original dust-jacket with Cugat illustration, the J corrected by hand; some restoration.

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