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'THE GREAT GATSBY' BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, 1ST

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'THE GREAT GATSBY' BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, FIRST EDITION, 1925, WITH THREE OTHERS BY FITZGERALD:Lot includes: "The Great Gatsby", New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925; no dust jacket, as the piece is a discarded library book. "The Beautiful and Damned", New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1922; no dust jacket; "All the Sad Young Men", New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926; no dust jacket. Also includes "The Vegetable: Or From President to Postman", New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1923; no dust jacket.

The green cloth covers of "The Great Gatsby" are worn, with bumped corner, and no traces of gilt to the lettering; foxing evident as well and the hinge is slightly cracked. There is only gilt lettering on the spine of "The Beautiful and Damned", the pages are also slightly discolored, and the hinge is slightly cracked and the corners are bumped. The covers of "All the Sad Young Men" are worn, with bumped corners, a cracked hinge, loss of gilt to the lettering; the pages are also discolored. The covers of "The Vegetable" are worn with loss of gilt lettering to the cover and bumped corners; slight discoloration to the paper. RG

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