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Rare first edition of The Great Gatsby lists at $360,000

Harrington will soon bring a first edition of the 1925 book, widely considered F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, to New York's International Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs from April 21-24 at the P

THE GREAT FIND: The first edition had 20,870 copies. The easiest way to determine if a book is from this print run — aside from just looking inside the cover — is by checking for errors that were eventually corrected
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THE GREAT FIND: The first edition had 20,870 copies. The easiest way to determine if a book is from this print run — aside from just looking inside the cover — is by checking for errors that were eventually corrected

James Tarmy | Bloomberg
High schoolers, beware: Before you annotate your next copy of The Great Gatsby, check the publication date. It might be worth a fortune.

“The Great Gatsby is considered, in collecting terms, the No. 1 American novel to collect,” says the London-based rare book dealer Peter Harrington. “A lot of that has to do with the dust jacket — people just seem to desperately want it.”

Harrington will soon bring a first edition of the 1925 book, widely considered F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, to New York’s International Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs from April 21-24 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Harrington’s book is priced

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