The Great Gatsby
London: Grey Walls Press, 1948. 1st Edition Thus. Small Octavo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #19458
An exquisite 1st UK Edition to use separate plates from the American Edition, first issued in in 1925.
The first edition issued in the UK was in 1926 by Chatto & Windus , but used the American plates from Scribner's. This edition, called by Bruccoli the 1st English Edition due to this fact.
The Great Gatsby tells a very human story of wealth, dreams, and failure. F. Scott Fitzgerald takes the reader into the heart of the Jazz Age, in New York City, and into the world of Jay Gatsby, and his work is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels and a high spot of 20th-century literature.
This beautiful copy is bound in publisher's green cloth, with titling in gilt to spine. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Little wear. Original dust jacket is price clipped with contemporary tape reinforcement to verso at both spine ends. Otherwise, jacket is in exceptional condition. Presents handsomely in archival mylar.
Price: $1,400.00