The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, First Issue, 1925

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, First Issue, 1925

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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’s 2013 version starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carrie Mulligan. CONDITION: Published in New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing, with Scribner’s seal, and all first-issue points. Book is rebound in beautiful full blue Moroccan leather with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling and a gilt embossed facsimile signature to the front board. New marbled endpapers. Deckled edges. Interior pages are very healthy and clean. Housed in a matching quarter leather and cloth clamshell. Clamshell features a red interior with a gilt, embossed signature of the author. Front board of the clamshell includes a color inset of the original dust jacket illustration. Book Dimensions: 7 3/4" H x 5 5/8" W x 1 3/8" D. Clamshell Dimensions: 8 7/8" H x 6 3/4" W x 2" D. Accompanied by our company's letter of authenticity.

Dimensions:
Height: 8.88 in (22.56 cm)Width: 6.75 in (17.15 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Style:
Art Deco (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Leather,Paper,Embossed,Gilt
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture:
1925
Condition:
Additions or alterations made to the original: Rebound in full blue Moroccan leather with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling, gilt embossed facsimile signature to the front board. New marbled endpapers. New clamshell. By Felton Bookbinding Ltd. in June 2024. Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Colorado Springs, CO
Reference Number:
Seller: BK09981stDibs: LU909740488082

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