Peter Harrington

The Atlantic has a short news item on the Great Gatsby dust jacket that’s being auctioned  in October, and our copy gets a mention. I particularly like their description of it as  “the green light of book jackets”.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——”

For further reading, I discussed the appeal of The Great Gatsby and its dust jacket in the post Understanding First Editions, and Booktryst also has also written an excellent piece on the jacket.