First edition copy of 'The Great Gatsby' auctioned

A first edition copy of the famed US writer F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel 'The Great Gatsby' has fetched 1,875 pounds - nearly triple its pre-sale estimate - at an auction in Edinburgh.
The auction took place on the eve of the premiere of the new film 'The Great Gatsby', an adaptation of the novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.
The book valued at 700 pounds is from one of the most remarkable private libraries of English literature to go under the hammer, reports 'The Edinburgh Reporter'.
The library that sold for a total of 226,000 pounds belonged to the late Bruce Ritchie, a Stirling-born school teacher, according to auctioneers at Lyon & Turnbull.

The collection of Ritchie also included first editions of Henry Fielding's History of Tom Jones, Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
The sale also featured TS Eliot's Prufrock, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, James Joyce's Ulysses and Dubliners, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and WB Yeats' Mosada among others.
"For me, the outstanding items in the sale included the collection of works by Alexander Pope, Seamus Heaney, Tom Stoppard and the works of Yeats. The run of publications from the Cuala Press, the press established by Yeats's sisters also spring to mind," John Sibbald, book specialist at Lyon & Turnbull said.