FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner's 1925. 8vo, original green cloth (front inner hinge a trifle tender, slight abrasion to inside front cover), PICTORIAL DUST JACKET after F. Cugat (frayed at ends of spine and a fore-corner, lightly worn); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of text and of dust jacket, PRESENTATION COPY TO ZELDA'S SISTER AND HER HUSBAND NEWMAN SMITH, inscribed by the author in blue-purple ink on front free endpaper: "For Rosalind and Capitan with affection from Scott and Zelda June (May) 1925" ("Capitan" was their nickname for the brother-in-law). The Fitzgeralds, on their European stay, were at Capri when The Great Gatsby was published (on 10 April 1925), moving to Paris later that month; they stayed in Paris until August, when they left for the Riviera. While on Capri Fitzgerald sent Scribner's a number of inscriptions on slips of paper to be pasted in presentation copies sent to fellow writers: Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, Carl Van Doren, Van Wyck Brooks, etc. (see Letters, ed. Bruccoli, pp. 156-158). By the time of this inscription to Rosalind and Capitan, Fitzgerald had access to an actual copy of the first edition. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48: "...one of the half-dozen best American novels..." Exceedingly rare with a contemporary presentation inscription and in the dust jacket.Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 110).

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner's 1925. 8vo, original green cloth (front inner hinge a trifle tender, slight abrasion to inside front cover), PICTORIAL DUST JACKET after F. Cugat (frayed at ends of spine and a fore-corner, lightly worn); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of text and of dust jacket, PRESENTATION COPY TO ZELDA'S SISTER AND HER HUSBAND NEWMAN SMITH, inscribed by the author in blue-purple ink on front free endpaper: "For Rosalind and Capitan with affection from Scott and Zelda June (May) 1925" ("Capitan" was their nickname for the brother-in-law). The Fitzgeralds, on their European stay, were at Capri when The Great Gatsby was published (on 10 April 1925), moving to Paris later that month; they stayed in Paris until August, when they left for the Riviera. While on Capri Fitzgerald sent Scribner's a number of inscriptions on slips of paper to be pasted in presentation copies sent to fellow writers: Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, Carl Van Doren, Van Wyck Brooks, etc. (see Letters, ed. Bruccoli, pp. 156-158). By the time of this inscription to Rosalind and Capitan, Fitzgerald had access to an actual copy of the first edition. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48: "...one of the half-dozen best American novels..." Exceedingly rare with a contemporary presentation inscription and in the dust jacket. Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 110).

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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner's 1925. 8vo, original green cloth (front inner hinge a trifle tender, slight abrasion to inside front cover), PICTORIAL DUST JACKET after F. Cugat (frayed at ends of spine and a fore-corner, lightly worn); cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of text and of dust jacket, PRESENTATION COPY TO ZELDA'S SISTER AND HER HUSBAND NEWMAN SMITH, inscribed by the author in blue-purple ink on front free endpaper: "For Rosalind and Capitan with affection from Scott and Zelda June (May) 1925" ("Capitan" was their nickname for the brother-in-law). The Fitzgeralds, on their European stay, were at Capri when The Great Gatsby was published (on 10 April 1925), moving to Paris later that month; they stayed in Paris until August, when they left for the Riviera. While on Capri Fitzgerald sent Scribner's a number of inscriptions on slips of paper to be pasted in presentation copies sent to fellow writers: Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, Carl Van Doren, Van Wyck Brooks, etc. (see Letters, ed. Bruccoli, pp. 156-158). By the time of this inscription to Rosalind and Capitan, Fitzgerald had access to an actual copy of the first edition. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 48: "...one of the half-dozen best American novels..." Exceedingly rare with a contemporary presentation inscription and in the dust jacket.

Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 110).