35 36 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, custom clamshell box. $11,500 First edition of this landmark of 20th-century fiction. Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: “Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it” (48). First printing, with “sick in tired” on page 205 and all other first issue points. Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Light scattered foxing mainly to margins and preliminary and concluding pages, rear hinge expertly reinforced, original cloth quite fresh, gilt bright. Nearfine condition. “So We Beat On, Boats AgainstThe Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past” First Revised And Expanded Edition Of Hemingway’s In Our Time 37 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. In Our Time. New York, 1930. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7000 First revised and expanded edition of In Our Time, first Scribner’s edition of the first of Hemingway’s books published in the United States, newly featuring his “Introduction by the Author” (later retitled “On the Quai at Smyrna”), with revisions to two stories, in rare dust jacket with gold and black design by Cleonike. In addition to the new “Introduction,” this edition includes revisions to “A Very Short Story” and “Mr. and Mrs. Eliot.” This collection presented a number of Hemingway’s finest short pieces to the American public, including “Indian Camp,” “The Battler,” and both parts of “Big Two-Hearted River.” In 1924 Three Mountains Press in Paris published in our time in an edition of only 170 copies; that much-shorter work contained only the vignettes that are here called “Chapters” and interspersed among the 15 longer stories collected here for the first time. (Two of the 18 pieces that originally appeared in in our time were included here as full stories: “A Very Short Story” and “The Revolutionist.”). Second American edition overall: preceded by the Boni & Liveright 1925 edition, 1926 London first edition. Book near-fine, dust jacket with expert restoration to extremities. “A Prose Poem Of Delight And Sadness”
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