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Lot 92

Sale 5834 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 2, 2023 6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 - 5,000
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$4,410
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[Literature] Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby 

The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing (including all six of Bruccoli's first printing textual points). 8vo. (vi), 218 pp. Original dark blue-green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; fore-edge untrimmed; rare dust-jacket wanting. Bruccoli A11.1.a

A superb first edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece, first published on April 10, 1925.

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Tales of the Jazz Age
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition, first printing (with "an" on line 6, p. 232, and type batter present in all lines via Bruccoli). 8vo. (ii), xi, (i), 317 pp. Original dark blue-green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, gilt on spine faded, soiling on front board; fore-edge untrimmed; light foxing to endpapers; pp. VII-(XII) somewhat roughly opened. Bruccoli A.9.1.a

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