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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Viking (1945). First edition, first printing. Cloth, pp. xix, 835. Very good, without dust jacket. Prior owner's neat signature and address front end paper. Covers have few spots of faint soiling, with light wear at tips of spine, endpapers are lightly tanned, else a very good copy. First edition (of this collection) Bruccoli AA1; issued as a volume in the series Viking Portable Library. Includes the entire text of THE GREAT GATSBY and TENDER IS THE NIGHT. Text has no writing, no highlighting, etc.; no remainder marks. NOT BC ed; NOT ex-lib. Includes nine short stories (Absolution, The Baby Party, The Rich Boy, May Day, The Cut-Glass Bowl, The Offshore Pirate, The Freshest Boy, Crazy Sunday, Babylon Revisited). With an introduction by John O'Hara. Becoming rare. 1st edition, w/ no indication of any other printing. In 1945, his friend Dorothy Parker compiled The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald. By 1945 the opinion that "Gatsby" was merely a period piece had almost entirely disappeared. In that year New Directions published Edmund Wilson's edition of "The Crack-UP," and a new edition of "Gatsby," with an introduction by Lionel Trilling which quietly asserted that "Fitzgerald is now beginning to take his place in our literary tradition." In that year, too, "Gatsby" was reprinted in The Viking Portable Fitzgerald. 0.0
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Second Printing. Small octavo, 835 pages. Selected by Dorothy Parker and introduction by John O'Hara. Scarce portable edition of The Great Gatsby and collection that instigated the revival of Fitzgerald's work. Also includes Tender is the Night, and nine short stories. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chips at spine ends.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Armed Services Edition, New York, 1945.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: ASE #862 221(3)pp. Solid First Armed Services Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with fairly minor page edge toning and no foxing. Binding firm with unblemished, tight staple. Moderate wear and creasing but no tears or chipping. Spine panel toned so that the title can barely be picked up with a magnifying glass but all color faded. An attractive collectable copy of one of the scarcer ASE's with copies quite infrequently coming to market, and not staying very long when they do.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New Directions, New York, 1945.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition thus as published by New Directions. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth boards with spine stamped in blue with dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Near Fine with light splaying to boards, cloth lightly foxed and faintly spine faded, pages toned. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with small tear removing the price from the bottom corner of the front flap; light sunning to spine, soiling and general wear with several chips along the edges, and light staining mostly confined to the rear flap fold. Originally published in 1925, this 1945 reprint edition has become scarce.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.