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Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby.
Publisher: Grey Walls Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1948
Stock Code: 9118
First British edition. Octavo, pp. 164. Publishers’ leaf green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by George Woodman. Minor crease to the upper corner of upper board, with some minor associated ruffling to text-block edge. Contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly soiled, with unobtrusive cellotape residue at head of spine and front fold; 2 cm closed tear to lower front fold; loss to corner tip p. 163/4 affecting margin only. A very good copy in like dust- jacket. The Grey Walls edition of Fitzgerald’s iconic novel of the frenetic Roaring Twenties is the true first British edition as the Chatto & Windus edition of 1926 was reprinted from the original American plates. Fitzgerald died believing that his magnum opus, despite some positive reviews, was a commercial and personal failure. It was not until a post-war reassessment that Gatsby was elevated to the status of a modern masterpiece, epitome of the Jazz Age, and contender for the crown of the Great American Novel. Sold