Great Gatsby-First Edition: $75,000
This outstanding rare book in excellent condition from Bauman Rare Books will plug that hole in his library and leave a hole in your nest egg. But like other one-of-kind antiques, it won't lose its value.
In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald told his publisher Max Perkins, "I want to write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." The triumphant result three years later was The Great Gatsby, published just before what Fitzgerald called the summer of "1,000 parties and no work."
