Taps at Reveille.

York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 8vo.; endpapers browned; dark bluish green cloth, spine stamped in gilt; dust-jacket, near fine. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase.

$125,000

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper during the month of publication to novelist Jim Boyd: For Jim Boyd / Statesman, sailor, devoted son of old Eli, wheelright, piano tuner, opthamalogist [sic] and founder of the National Pornographic from his loyal (over) [continued on verso:] (2) and devoted constituency
Hung Lee Song
Chief Horseprotector
Hdckld Rzhxytche
(Notre Dame ‘27
Bernie Hauptman
and
Father ("Pa") Coughlin
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Sec)
Baltimore, March 1935.
Further inscribed on the half-title, incorporating the printed text (which is shown here in square brackets): Heel [Taps] to Jim Boyd & many [at Reveille]s.
With Boyd’s bookplate on the front pastedown.