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The $100,000 Dust Jacket

The Great Gatsby & the $100,000 dust jacket

The Great Gatsby & the $100,000 dust jacket

As explained in this clip from AbeBooks, a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby sold for $182,000 at auction in 2009, and the reason it fetched such a high price was the presence of its dust jacket. A first edition of the novel without a dust jacket could sell for anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand dollars, depending on its condition.

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The Great Gatsby

GREAT GATSBY Trailer (2012) Movie HD

GREAT GATSBY Trailer (2012) Movie HD

Can Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, and Jason Clarke do justice to one of the greatest American novels of all time? We'll find out this Christmas when Baz Luhrmann's eagerly anticipated The Great Gatsby arrives in theaters.

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Stanley Kubrick's The Great Gatsby

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Students in a high school Advanced English class produced this short film combining the general plot points of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with the filmmaking style of Stanley Kubrick, specifically in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Tags: short film | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Stanley Kubrick | Fiction