Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Scribner Classics edition, later printing hardcover copy of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a new archival wrap. First Scribner Classics Edition Later Printing in archival wrap. Edition unstated, 1996 Scribner. Later Printing with number line.
NF hardcover with clean, bright boards, clean page blocks, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and one lightly bumped corner. Previous owner’s stamped “bookplate” on ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Pages clean and bright.NF unclipped dust jacket with moderate to heavy surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
