Description
First edition, second state of Taps at Reveille by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Octavo, 407pp. Dark green-blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. The first edition, first printing, with “Scribner’s A” and the Scribner’s seal on copyright page. This is the second state, with pages 349 to 352 being a cancel leaf. Solid text block, numerous unopened leaves, faint offsetting to endpapers. Light dusting to all edge of the text block, notable on the first 2cm of each leaf. Lightly bumped corners. Lacking the incredibly scarce dust jacket. (Bruccoli A 18.1.a2)
A very good example of a lesser-known title from F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring short stories like “The Freshest Boy,” “First Blood,” “Crazy Sunday,” and “Babylon Revisited.”
