Taps at Reveille

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing, second state, with canceled leaves correcting misprints to pp. 349-351. Publisher's dark blue cloth, ruled in blind to boards and lettered in gilt to spine. A near fine book with no cocking, tight block edges, bright and clean. Overall, a very nice copy. Bruccoli A.17.I.a2 Taps at Reveille is Fitzgerald's fourth collection of short stories and the last book published during the author's lifetime. Each such collection was scheduled to follow the publication of Fitzgerald's novels; Taps at Reveille was published a year after Tender is the Night. The collection contains eighteen stories, including: 'Crazy Sunday,' 'A Woman with a Past,' The Last of the Belles,' and 'Babylon Revisited.' According to the publisher, Fitzgerald chose his best short stories for this collection. Although it may lack maturity at times, the stories are full of the poignant and amusing stories of youth, gaiety and adolescent error.