FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT | The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925

The Property of a Gentleman

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

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

8vo. Minor toning. Publisher's green cloth, upper cover lettered in blind, spine gilt; minor rubbing, cocked. Facsimile jacket.  

First edition of a prime candidate for the Great American Novel, with an ownership inscription dated "St. Paul | 1925," the birthplace of the author 

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



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