The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, the novel, with 97 drawings by the architect Michael Graves, signed, 1984. $12,000.00
Publication 15
ADD TO CARTArion Press editor Diana Ketcham, who was the book critic for the Oakland Tribune, had read that the favorite book of the well-known architect Michael Graves was The Great Gatsby and that he reread the novel every year. Hoyem and Ketcham visited Graves at his office in Princeton, New Jersey....and Graves liked the idea of making drawings for Gatsby. Hoyem told Graves to imagine himself as Gatsby's architect and draw the buildings and grounds, the furniture and fixtures, the landscaping, automobiles, and cocktail glasses of East and West Egg and New York City, and the gas station and pool where characters meet their ends, but none of the characters themselves, who are left to the reader's imagination.
Graves eventually revealed that the story about his reading the Fitzgerald novel every year was untrue. “That was Bob Stern (Robert A. M. Stern),” he told Hoyem and Ketcham, explaining that he did not say so at first because he wanted to do the project anyway.
FORMAT
10 by 6-1/2 inches, 182 pages. The text is composed in Monotype Goudy Light with Piehler capitals and figures for display. The paper is French mouldmade Rives buff. Photo-engravings printed in terra-cotta, titling and chapter numbers in blue-green. The binding has a blue-green cloth spine and corners, with printed grey paper over boards, in slipcase with cloth edges and paper sides. Signed by the artist. Edition of 350 copies. This is one of the fifty (and the last remaining copy) of the special edition, with the book housed in a green cloth box with a recessed lid displaying a cast sculptural relief by Graves of Gatsby's estate, in a terra cotta-like material.
Special Edition: This is one of the fifty (and the last remaining copy) of the special edition, with the book housed in a green cloth box with a recessed lid displaying a cast sculptural relief by Graves of Gatsby's estate, in a terra cotta-like material, and original signed drawing. Sold only with the book, $15,000 total. Click here to order the Special Edition with original drawing.
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