[ModLib] NOT SUCH A GREAT GATSBY

[JOSEPH HILL]

If I were a writer of such merit and had great love for my wife, I should not present her a 95 cent reprint but rather a fine first edition of said work.

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From: TheBookScene.com
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [ModLib] NOT SUCH A GREAT GATSBY

None of those facts, singularly or as a group, seem enough for a compelling
doubt, to me.

In fact, reason number 3 may tend to support the authenticity of the
signature. I can see an author presenting a signed copy to his wife of his
very 1st work at the time of first publication. Or a copy of a later work
that she had a connection or made a contribution to. Any other work signed
in this fashion would possibly indicate a separation?

Neal
TheBookScene.com

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, JOSEPH HILL <goodbooks at webtv.net> wrote:

>  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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