Item #901394 The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1980.
Illustrated by Fred Meyer. Limited Edition. Hardcover.

#1641 of two thousand copies signed by the artist, Fred Meyer. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Illustrated with fourteen color gouaches by Fred Meyer reproduced by The Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden, Connecticut. Introduction by Charles Scribner III. The cover is stamped with a design created by Deborah M. Evetts. This is the fifth volume in the Forty-fifth Series of books produced by The Limited Editions Club. The 4-pp Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club (October 1980) and separate broadside describing the book in detail are laid in.

The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's third novel first published in 1925, set in Jazz Age New York, and narrated by Nick Carraway. It tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of and reunion with his first love, the well-to-do socialite Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan’s character is purported to have been based on that of Fitzgerald’s own first sweetheart, debutante Ginevra King, whose father opined “poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls.”

Item #901394

7 x 9", xix, 171pp, grey cloth stamped with a design created by Deborah M. Evetts, LEC Monthly Letter and broadside laid in.

Very fine in worn original onion-skin wrapper and publisher's slip-case. Slip-case has a bit of edge-wear to tips and moisture damage to spine.

Price: $275.00