FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8° (183 x 25mm). Modern green morocco, spine gilt, preserving original dark green cloth front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with 'chatter' for 'echolalia' on p. 60, 'northern' for 'southern' on p. 119, 'sick in tired' for 'sickantired' on p. 205, and 'Union Street station' for 'Union Station' on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 48.
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8° (183 x 25mm). Modern green morocco, spine gilt, preserving original dark green cloth front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with 'chatter' for 'echolalia' on p. 60, 'northern' for 'southern' on p. 119, 'sick in tired' for 'sickantired' on p. 205, and 'Union Street station' for 'Union Station' on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 48.

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FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8° (183 x 25mm). Modern green morocco, spine gilt, preserving original dark green cloth front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with 'chatter' for 'echolalia' on p. 60, 'northern' for 'southern' on p. 119, 'sick in tired' for 'sickantired' on p. 205, and 'Union Street station' for 'Union Station' on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 48.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8° 205 x 140mm). Modern green morocco for Asprey, gilt spine, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. Together with 5 other works in morocco by Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Sax Rohmer. (7)