Alastair Duncan Furniture

This book is the third in the comprehensive multi-volume series on the decorative arts of the Paris Salons 1895-1914, it provides a virtually com...

American Art Deco furniture by Ric Emmett After four years of research and writing this book has become a Reality! It has become a part of...

Table Lighter Lancel "Le Boule de Lancel" Patent Pending SGDGA 75-22, in brass with a golden brass mechanism, includes a smoker's stand and cigarette bo...

"Goodbye Picasso" by David Douglas Duncan. Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1974.

Presenting an extremely rare first edition hardback copy of The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling from 1897. This rare book is in fair to good condition for ...

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing. Rebound in full blue morocco leather with gilt tooling, raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, and a matching ¼ blue leather and cloth clamshell. This is the first edition, first issue of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a landmark of 20th century fiction. This haunting tale of "empty elegance and impossible love" in the opulent age of American Jazz is considered by many to be the greatest American novel of the 20th century. In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald told his editor Max Perkins, "I want to write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned" (Bruccoli, 198). The triumphant result three years later was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925. Set in New York City and Long Island during the Roaring Twenties, the focus of the story is its title character, Jay Gatsby, and his unswerving desire to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s neighbor and Daisy’s cousin, narrates Gatsby's journey from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. The Great Gatsby is undoubtedly one of the greatest American literary documents of the 1920s, the decade for which Fitzgerald himself coined the term “Jazz Age.” However, in writing the book, Fitzgerald was in fact holding up a mirror to the society of which he was a part. In true Modernist fashion, The Great Gatsby addresses the social issues of the period — namely materialism and displaced spirituality — that ultimately led to the decline of the era. The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece, though the original sales were very disappointing in comparison to his earlier bestsellers. The work barely paid back his advance from his publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. The first printing of 20,870 copies eventually sold, and Scribner's printed only 3,000 more. When Fitzgerald died fifteen years later, there were still copies of that second printing on warehouse shelves. Undeterred, Fitzgerald himself was clear on his feelings of its merits, "I think my novel is about the best American novel ever written" (Letters p. 166). Noted critic Cyril Connolly called The Great Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: "[Gatsby] remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it" (The Modern Movement, 48). NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan declared, "The Great Gatsby is one of the first modern novels to look squarely at the void, yet it stops short of taking a flying leap… It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel" (Corrigan, 23). The Great Gatsby gained great popularity during WWII and the mainstream and critics began to embrace the author’s work. Today, The Great Gatsby has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, sells an estimated additional 500,000 copies annually, and is Scribner's most popular title. Ranked #2 on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century, the novel is also listed on their Top 100 Novels as well as The Observer’s All-Time 100 Best Novels and Time Magazine’s 100 Best Modern Novels. It was the basis for numerous stage and film adaptations. Gatsby had four film adaptations, with two exceptionally big-budget versions: the 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, as well as Baz Luhrmann...

Super fun French game, called Jeux de la grenouille, involving throwing. Pine game and cast iron frogs. Get the disc in the frogs’ mouths!

Original brand new 1st edition copy of Rattan Furniture: Tropical Comfort Throughout The House signed by author Harvey Schwartz. Request a personal message written by the author at...

Histoire de la Peinture Moderne- de Picasso au Surrealisme- du Cubisme a Paul Klee. Hardcover, text in French. Printed in Geneva, 1950. Stunning compilation of artworks from the per...

Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes, Vintage, Pablo Picasso, First Edition, 1955. Pablo Picasso, Library or Coffee Table Book,. Description:...

Sotheby's sale catalogue of the sale of 20th century objets and furniture from the collection of Karl Largerfeld dated 15th May 2003. The catalogue will prove to be of great value as...

The Collins Big Book of Art, from Cave Art to Pop Art, General Editor David G. Wilkins. Stated first edition, published in 2005 by Collins Design. Hardcover w...