Featuring darkly elegant illustrations by Yuko Shimizu and an afterword by Chuck Palahniuk, this delicately crafted edition captures the dazzle and desolation of the Jazz Age.
This April marks 100 years since the first publication of The Great Gatsby—one of the most iconic and beloved works in American literature. To celebrate the centennial, The Folio Society will release a superbly crafted edition of The Great Gatsby on April 10, 2025, with a limited print run of 500 copies.
Featuring a new, exclusive afterword by bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk and 13 full color, full page illustrations by award-winning illustrator Yuko Shimizu, this edition dives into the shadowy corners of Jay Gatsby’s world. Palahniuk and Shimizu shine a light on the seamy subtext of the novel, revealing the grime amidst the glamor.
“Illustrations © Yuko Shimizu 2025, from The Great Gatsby.”
James Rose, Head of Editorial at The Folio Society, says, “Yuko Shimizu’s breathtaking illustrations perfectly reveal how crime, lust, and betrayal simmer below the surface in Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of love and wealth. An incomparable love story, but also a warning on the dangers of unchecked idealism and ambition.”
This edition is designed to be treasured, with a leather cover blocked in gold foil, gilded edges, Sirio Pearl Cocktail Blue Moon endpapers, and a ribbon marker, all beautifully presented in a clamshell box. The first edition text will be typeset in LTC Kennerley and printed in black and gold inks on Dolce Vita paper. Each book will include a limitation label signed by both Shimizu and Palahniuk.
“Illustrations © Yuko Shimizu 2025, from The Great Gatsby.”
As Palahniuk tells us in his afterword, “We should all be able to lament as beautifully as [Fitzgerald] did. Regardless of shaping the future, we should all be able to revisit our past with such skill and humility.”
PRODUCTION DETAILS
- Limited Edition: 500 copies
- Full bound in goatskin leather blocked in two foils with an exterior design by Yuko Shimizu
- Set in LTC Kennerley with Inbox Thin as display
- 236 pages of text printed on Dolce Vita Ivory paper
- Printed in black and gold with 13 full color, full page illustrations
- Sirio Pearl Cocktail Blue Moon endpapers
- Gilded on 3 edges
- Head and tailbands
- Ribbon marker
- Limitation label printed letterpress
- Presented in a clamshell box, covered in cloth which is screen-printed and foil blocked with a design by Yuko Shimizu
- Display box lettering commissioned from Atelier Olschnsky Grafik und Design OG, Vienna
- Printed and bound by Graphicom, Italy
- 246 x 156 mm | 9.69 x 6.14 inches
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Minnesota. He had a love of writing from an early age and his first story was published in his school newspaper when he was 13. Fitzgerald graduated from the Newman School in 1913 and went on to study at Princeton University. Here, he wrote articles and stories for magazines and eventually dropped out to join the army. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920) received critical acclaim, and he went on to write The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), as well as a number of short stories. Fitzgerald died in 1940.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Yuko Shimizu is an award-winning New York-based Japanese artist, renowned for her intricate and expressive artwork. She has an MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay Program offered by the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now teaches in the BFA undergraduate department alongside working as a freelance artist. Her work has been published by Penguin, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times and the New Yorker; for Folio her work includes Japanese Tales (2018) and The Great Gatsby (2025) Her accolades include multiple Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, along with recognition as one of Newsweek Japan’s ‘100 Japanese People the World Respects’.
ABOUT THE FOLIO SOCIETY
Folio is an employee-owned, independent publisher that has thrilled and delighted a band of dedicated readers across the globe since 1947. Today, from our workspace in the heart of London’s vibrant Shad Thames, Folio continues that tradition by crafting exquisite, illustrated books.
Folio publishes many of the greatest names in publishing, in editions which reflect an extraordinary commitment to the craft of book-making and design. Folio’s award-winning books include George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, Madeline Miller’s A Song of Achilles, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle.
Proudly independent for over 75 years, in 2021 The Folio Society became an Employee Ownership Trust. Folio’s team of editors, designers and artisans will do whatever it takes to give each title everything it deserves, from outstanding intellectual firepower to extraordinary craftsmanship.
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