Store hopes to cash in with rare 'Great Gatsby'

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — 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 for almost two months before it was noticed, and now the bookseller hopes it will bring more than $50,000.

"If you're a serious collector, you have to have this book," said store operator Thomas Baldwin.

He wouldn't identify the man who left the book at his shop, but said he will receive a "very good" percentage of the book's proceeds.

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