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  • First Edition of Taps At Reveille; Inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald To His Secretary

    FITZGERALD, F. Scott.

    Taps at Reveille.

    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…

    Price: $35,000.00     Item Number: 3024

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