Senior modern literature specialist Adam Blakeney inspects this presentation copy of The Great Gatsby; a first Modern Library edition.
This copy is additionally annotated in ink by the author at the upper margin of his own introduction, first published in this edition: “Very bad introduction.” With the recipient’s ink inscription on the half-title, “Marion B. Greene. Tryon – 1935.”
This copy is bound in brown cloth, one of several variant colours, and lacks the remainder stamp (“discontinued title”) often or even usually found, a poignant reminder of how far the author’s reputation and popularity had fallen in such a short time.
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