The Great Gatsby.

FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

Item Number: 2718

New York: Charles Scribners, 1925.

First edition, first printing with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away” on p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo, original dark green cloth. Fine in a very good first issue dust jacket, with lowercase “j” in “jay Gatsby” on the back panel, hand-corrected in ink. The dust jacket has had some restoration to the folds, tape removed and some tears repaired. An excellent copy, extremely rare in the original dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

The dust jacket is not only one of the most recognizable and iconic book covers of the twentieth century, but it is also one of the most rare. The cover art was entitled "Celestial Eyes" and was designed by artist Francis Cugat, who was not well-known at the time. Fitzgerald, however, fell in love with the design and actually wrote a number of things into the novel to relate it to the proposed cover.