The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped on cover and gilt lettered on spine, without jacket. 7 3/8 x 5 inches (19 x 12.75 cm); 218 pp. Spotting to first and last leaves and intermittently elsewhere, the cloth rubbed at places, slip of Bauman Rare Books laid-in.

The first edition, first printing of Fitzgerald's masterpiece, a classic of American literature. "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Bruccoli, 11.1.a.