FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Taps at Reveille. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
8vo. (Some light overall toning.) Original blue-green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, fore-edge uncut and partially unopened (a touch of wear to spine ends, slight rubbing to corners); dust jacket (a few areas of restoration and recoloring to extremities and portion of spine panel, some overall light toning).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with pp.349-352 integral and unrevised, including the "catch it" reading on p. 351. The fourth and largest collection of Fitzgerald's short stories, and the last work to be published during his lifetime, Taps at Reveille includes "The Freshest Boy," "Crazy Sunday," and "Babylon Revisited." Bruccoli A18.1.a.1 (dust jacket priced "$2.50" on the rear panel and without the rubberstamped price on the front flap found on some copies [no priority]).
This lot is located in Chicago.
