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Title: Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzerald: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs for the Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli ISBN: 1-57003-360-9 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: So happy I own it!
Comment: Yes, I agree with the previous reviewer that this is a collectible, and not the version of "The Great Gatsby" to buy in order to read. But I am one of the Gatsby and Fitzerald junkies who wanted this, badly, the moment I heard it was going to be released.

It is, though, even if you do want to read it, so fragile (the material its pages are made of) and unwieldy that it's nearly frightening - I may destroy it, is the feeling I have each time I look at it.

As for the substance: the book went through a number of changes, and this respresents one. So, it isn't an all-encompassing view of the progression of the writing of the book - it's one set of corrections. The fascination, for me, is with Fitzgerald's handwriting, markings, and marginalia. I do have an affinity for handwriting, and for Fitzgerald, so this is interesting to me. Less interesting is that these are corrected galleys, really, because I know of other versions (read, even, the book "Trimalchio: an early edition of The Great Gatsby") and, even after these particular galleys were proofed, FSF sent telegrams to his editor requesting further change - most notably, the title, which didn't get changed as the book had already gone to print.

Nevertheless, owning this is a piece of FSF history and I love it. I like less reading it than looking at it, but that's me. I wouldn't do without it, and if I got more of them for my birthday I'd be in heaven!!

The series is numbered, and I wish I had a lower number. (It took me a little while to bring myself to spend the money.) For this reason, when it came from Amazon in a box too small for it, with no packaging material, and the corners of _its_ box pressed in, I didn't return it for a clean copy. But I do wish more care had been taken in the packaging of this item. It's that important to me.

Rating: 4
Summary: Collectible -- not book
Comment: The Univ. of South Carolina Press facsimile of the "Trimalchio" galleys is worth owning if you're a serious Fitzgerald junkie, and Bruccoli's comments are (as always) enlightening, but buy the Cambridge edition if you actually plan to read the text -- the pages are looseleaf and about 24 inches long (like the galleys, presumably), so it doesn't fit so well in a backpack or on a bookshelf.