1

Perkins misspelled the title. All spellings and punctuation are preserved in the directly quoted material in this book, except where the error might cause confusion.

2

The next stage after galleys, long printed sheets with errors corrected and the pages numbered.

3

Trade books are books of fiction and nonfiction that are sold through the trade—bookstores and other commercial outlets—as distinct from textbooks and other technical books, which are sold differently.

4

“What a pleasure it was to publish that! It was as perfect a thing as I ever had any share in publishing,” Max wrote Scott about Gatsby in that same letter. “One does not seem to get such satisfaction as that any more.”