Taps at Reveille
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935 First printing of the first edition, first state with pages 349-352 uncancelled and the text unrevised on pages 350 and 351.
One of only 5,100 copies printed.
Original dark bluish green cloth linen-grain cloth with blind single-rule border on front cover and with spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages 350.5-7 reads: 'he need not base himself on the adding machine-calculating machine-probability machine-St. Francis of Assis machine any longer.' And at 351.29-30 the text reads: '"Oh, catch it-oh, catch it and take it-oh, catch it," she sighed.'
In the original dust jacket by Doris Spiegel, with drawings of figures from the stories against an orange background on the front panel, $2.50 price on the front and rear flap. Light bump to bottom, back spine, light tanning to end papers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with some age-toning and offsetting to spine and back cover, with professional conservation, primarily to edges and spine.
A lovely copy of the last book of short stories published during Fitzgerald's life, including Babylon Revisited.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021258
- Title
- Taps at Reveille
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Illustrator
- Doris Spiegel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics.
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
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