[ModLib] NOT SUCH A GREAT GATSBY

[JOSEPH HILL]

Last week I sold a Modern Library Price Guide to a collector of first editions who specializes in Fitzgerald; why he wanted a copy of the Guide, I have no idea. 
He stated that he has three inscribed Modern Library editions of the Gatsby.
I then told him of the inscribed copy to his wife that I had seen at a San Francisco book show with my eldest daughter some thirty years ago.
He then gave me the following reasons why that copy may well be a fake.
1,) No major Fitzgerald collector  knows of its existence.
2.) Even thirty years ago, the price of $1,600 would be  low.
3.) At the time the Modern Library edition was published (1934), Zelda was already institutionalized.
  

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