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36. The Great Gatsby First Edition

Creator: Charles Scribner's  
Original Price: $ 2 *
Current value: $ 400.000 *

The Jones Brothers are a UK-based rare book hub and made headlines when they sold a first edition of The Great Gatsby, a famous classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, for thousands. The first edition of Gatsby was sold with the same dust jacket it had in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby First Edition ©F. Scott Fitzgerald / Amazon.com

Jones said that “rarity, cover art, and story” led to the valuable nature of this first edition. There was a typo on the back of the book's dust jacket that says, “jay Gatsby,” with a lowercase, not an uppercase letter. A stamp correction was used to fix the error, but the rarity had already been compounded.

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