Edition details
Great Gatsby, The by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 13 full colour, full page illustrations by Yuko Shimizu. Afterword by Chuck Palahniuk. Printed in black and gold. Sirio Pearl Cocktail Blue Moon endpapers. Pages gilded on all edges. Green ribbon page marker. Bound in blue/green goatskin leather, blocked in 2 foils with a design by the artist. Printed and bound by Graphicom, Italy. Blue/green clamshell box covered in cloth which is screen-printed and foil blocked with a design. Display Box lettering commissioned from Atelier Olschnsky Grafik und Design OG, Vienna. 32.8x24.2cm. 224pp. 500 copies. (£350). Sold out in 2h15m.
About the book
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is set during the glittering Jazz Age of 1920s America. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the novel centres on the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose extravagant parties conceal a deeply personal ambition: to recapture his lost relationship with Daisy Buchanan. As Gatsby pursues an idealised version of the past, Fitzgerald exposes the emptiness beneath wealth, glamour and social success. The novel explores love, ambition, class, illusion and the corruption of the American Dream, making it one of the defining works of twentieth-century American literature.
