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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.

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.