Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Gatsby, first edition, first issue with 'northern' to p.119, 'it's' to p.165, 'chatter' to p.60, 'sick in tired' to p.205, and 'Union Street station' to p.211, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, otherwise near-fine, first state dust-jacket with capital 'J' printed over small 'j', repairs and restorations to spine ends, joints, hinges and corners, including 1" piece to the foot of spine, affecting publisher's imprint, lightly rubbed, still in effect a very good copy, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, New York, 1925.

⁂ A very good copy of Fitzgerald's masterpiece in the rare dust-jacket.

'I think my novel is about the best American novel ever written.' F.Scott Fitzgerald

The rare dust-jacket, designed by Francis Cugat, played an important part in the composition of the novel itself; Fitzgerald wrote to his publisher 'For Christ's sake don't give anyone that jacket you're saving for me. I've written it into the book.' This is most evident in his description of Daisy Buchanan as the 'girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs'.