SO WE READ ON: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
(2013)
First printing of Corrigan's engaging re-examination of The Great Gatsby's greatness.
Jazz Age
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ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
1926
First edition, a beautiful copy with college humor-laced provenance from the year of publication.
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
1922
Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.
THE GREAT GATSBY
1925
First edition, first printing of the famed novel exploring the poisons laced into the American dream – in the legendary original dust jacket, restored second issue (with "Jay" on rear panel).
THE MALTESE FALCON
1930
First edition in book form of the hard-boiled classic, in which private detective Sam Spade chases a valuable artifact with the femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy, rarely found with the original dust jacket (here professionally restored).
THE MALTESE FALCON
1930
First edition in book form of the hard-boiled classic, in which private detective Sam Spade chases a valuable artifact with the femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
1929
First printing of Hemingway's tragedy of ill-fated love amidst the fighting of World War I.
DODSWORTH
(1929)
First edition of this novel-slash-travelogue, the story of a husband and wife drifting apart during a European grand tour – adapted into an Oscar-nominated film in 1936.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
1925
Inscribed first issue of the famous bestseller of the Jazz Age, chronicling the high life of a Hollywood flapper's trip to Europe.
THE CHILDREN
1928
First printing, first state, of this Jazz-Age assessment of Modernism through the lens of the most famous woman author of the era, in the scarce original dust jacket.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
1922
First printing of the Jazz-Age novel published at the peak of Wharton's career, skillfully assessing the effects of gender roles in high society.
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