The Great Auction

F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby, made big money at a recent auction. In fact, it set a world record.

From the piece in Antiques and the Arts Online...

The star of Goldstone's collection was a 1925 first edition, first issue copy of The Great Gatsby in excellent condition. Without a doubt, the most outstanding feature of the book is its remarkably good dust-jacket. Considered by experts as quite possibly "the most expensive piece of Twentieth Century printed paper in book collecting," the dust jacket is an exceptionally rare find, which clearly contributed to the book far surpassing its estimate of $80/120,000 and ultimately fetching $180,000 — a world record price for any Gatsby.