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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
8o. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; pictorial dust jacket (some edgewear and darkening, a few closed tears at edges). Provenance: Charles "Bill" Marquis Warren, Fitzgerald's godson and protégé (presentation inscription and bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with pp. 349-352 integral and unrevised. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD TO HIS GODSON on the front free endpaper: " For Bill in Highest Hopes from his friend & collaborator, F.Scott Fitzgerald The 'Winter of Discontent' 1935." Fitzgerald met Warren in Baltimore, when he attended rehearsals for a play in which the young Warren had written the text and music. Fitzgerald was greatly impressed by the teen's accomplishment and shortly after wrote to Samuel Marx, story editor at MGM: "I haven't believed in anybody so strongly since Ernest Hemingway." Before long, they embarked on a screenplay of Tender is the Night, hence the "collaborator" reference in the inscription in this copy.
Their collaboration grew into a close friendship, with Fitzgerald serving as a supporting father-figure to the young talent. According to Warren's account, Fitzgerald woke him at 2:00 a.m. one morning and took him to a nearby church, where he a roused a local priest to have him baptized with Fitzgerald standing as his godfather. Warren stayed with Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham at their Malibu house when he first visited Hollywood. He would later make a name for himself there as a movie director ("Steets of Laredo," "Springfield Rifle," and "Pony Express" among some of his films) and television producer ("Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide"). Their friendship is detailed at length in Aaron Latham's Crazy Sundays: F.Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York, 1971).
This collection of eighteen stories would be the last book published in Fitzgerald's lifetime. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Bruccoli A18.1.a1.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with pp. 349-352 integral and unrevised. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD TO HIS GODSON on the front free endpaper: " For Bill in Highest Hopes from his friend & collaborator, F.Scott Fitzgerald The 'Winter of Discontent' 1935." Fitzgerald met Warren in Baltimore, when he attended rehearsals for a play in which the young Warren had written the text and music. Fitzgerald was greatly impressed by the teen's accomplishment and shortly after wrote to Samuel Marx, story editor at MGM: "I haven't believed in anybody so strongly since Ernest Hemingway." Before long, they embarked on a screenplay of Tender is the Night, hence the "collaborator" reference in the inscription in this copy.
Their collaboration grew into a close friendship, with Fitzgerald serving as a supporting father-figure to the young talent. According to Warren's account, Fitzgerald woke him at 2:00 a.m. one morning and took him to a nearby church, where he a roused a local priest to have him baptized with Fitzgerald standing as his godfather. Warren stayed with Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham at their Malibu house when he first visited Hollywood. He would later make a name for himself there as a movie director ("Steets of Laredo," "Springfield Rifle," and "Pony Express" among some of his films) and television producer ("Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide"). Their friendship is detailed at length in Aaron Latham's Crazy Sundays: F.Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York, 1971).
This collection of eighteen stories would be the last book published in Fitzgerald's lifetime. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Bruccoli A18.1.a1.