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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$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 347 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Echoes of the Jazz Age -- My Lost City -- Ring -- "Show Mr. And Mrs. F. To Number -- " -- Auction: Model 1934 -- Sleeping and Waking -- the Crack-Up -- Early Success -- the Note-Books. Anecdotes ; Bright Clippings ; Conversation and Things Overheard ; Descriptions of Things and Atmosphere ; Epigrams, Wisecracks and Jokes ; Feelings and Emotions (Without Girls) ; Descriptions of Girls ; Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ; Ideas ; Jingles and Songs ; Karacters ; Literary ; Moments (What People Do) ; Nonsense and Stray Phrases ; Observations ; Rought Stuff ; Scenes and Situations ; Titles ; Unclassified ; Vernacular ; Youth and Army -- Letters to Friends -- Letters to Frances Scott Fitzgerald -- Three Letters About "The Great Gatsby" From Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, and T.S. Eliot -- a Letter From John Dos Passos -- a Letter From Thomas Wolfe -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / by Paul Rosenfeld -- the Moral of Scott Fitzgerald / by Glenway Wescott -- a Note on Fitzgerald / by John Dos Passos -- the Hours / by John Peale Bishop. American fiction. Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle -- Correspondance. Roman américain. American fiction. Authors, American. Named Person: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Correspondence. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Poetry essays. poetry. Poetry. Literature. Essays. Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Personal correspondence. Essays. Personal correspondence. Poetry. Literature. Essais. Correspondance privée. Poésie. Near fine in well-worn fair jacket with several chips and closed tears, now in archival mylar.
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New Directions, 1945.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice condition, early copy of "THE GREAT GATSBY" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1945; New Directions; New York. Scarce first edition thus reprint copy, following the original 1925 publication. Original publisher's gray cloth binding with the title stamped in blue on the spine. Condition: Light soiling/staining to the covers and spine. Sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the pages are clean and nearly appear unread with no notable issues found. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New Directions Books, New York, 1945.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition Thus. Scarce early 1945 reprint of The Great Gatsby - originally published in 1925. Famous Alvin Lustig designed dust jacket. Measures approximately 7.25"x 5", with 218 numbered pages. This book is in good plus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the cloth boards. Moderate staining to the edges of the textblock. Both hinges are cracked. Textblock is clean but evenly age-toned. The original dust jacket is in fair condition. Heavy chipping to the spine ends and the edges of the jacket. Moderate surface wear and staining to the panels. "The Great Gatsby"is set during the Jazz Age on Long Island. The novel depicts first person narrative Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N9-80).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, 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.