A Very Pretty Gatsby
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
Price: $3,500.00
About the item
First edition, second printing, with "sickantired" p. 205. [vi], 218 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Gilt on spine is bright as is the cloth, faint spotting along top edge, contemporary ownership signature ("Susan W. Abercrombie"), a really lovely copy. Bruccoli A11.1.b; Connolly 100, no. 48.
Item #375377
In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald told his publisher Max Perkins, "I want to write something new — something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned" (Bruccoli, p. 198). The triumphant result three years later was The Great Gatsby, a "prose poem of delight and sadness" (Connolly) which has become the foundational expression of the decadence of the roaring Twenties and the striving and emptiness at the heart of the American Dream.
