Bookseller Finds ‘Great Gatsby’ First Edition

A first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel “The Great Gatsby” sat in a box of unsorted volumes at Baldwin’s Book Barn in West Chester for almost two months before it was noticed, and now the bookseller hopes that it will bring more than $50,000.

“If you’re a serious collector, you have to have this book,” store operator Thomas Baldwin said.

Baldwin identified the book as a first edition because protagonist Jay Gatsby’s first name on the dust jacket was printed with a lowercase “J,” an error corrected in later editions.