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Lot 78
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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Lot Description
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
8vo. (Some minor pale foxing to some gutter margins.) Original publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a bright copy); cloth folding case. Provenance: R. F. Pietsch (purchase note in pencil on front pastedown, dated 20 June 1925).
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. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48.