THE GREAT GATSBY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Item #178410
Very Good+ in the original third state dust jacket professionally restored Very Good+. Scribners Seal Errors not corrected that verify true first printing: p.60, line 16–“chatter”; p. 119, line 22–“northern”; p. 165, line 29–“away”; p. 205–lines 9-10–“sick in tired”; p. 211, lines 7-8–“Union Street station”. The first issue dust jacket had a lowercase “j” in “jay Gatsby” on the back panel, the First issue jacket was corrected by hand and the capital letter “J” was hand written over the lower case these are considered the second state. For the third state the jacket has book reviews on the back of the dust jacket, as well as on both inner flaps. There were 20,870 copies of the first second and third states only 3000 copies of the third state. With 3,000 third state jackets printed this is exceedingly harder find than the first two jackets.
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