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New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1935. First edition, first state, with pages 349-52 uncancelled and with "catch it" reading on page 351. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Isabel Owens Hoping we'll both be able to look back to this winter as a bleak exception, in a business way from F. Scott ("Old Scrooge") Fitzgerald." The recipient, Isabel Owens worked full-time as Fitzgerald's Baltimore secretary from 1932-36. She continued part-time in this role until his death in 1940. In addition to her secretarial duties, Owens acted as a foster mother to the Fitzgeralds' daughter Scottie and companion to Zelda. In near fine condition with the spine gilt bright in a very good dust jacket with some inner strengthening to the folds. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A wonderful association copy. Taps at Reveille was published in 1935 and is a collection of 18 short stories, the final…

About Taps at Reveille

Taps at Reveille is a collection of 18 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1935. It was the fourth and final collection of short stories published by Fitzgerald.