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CHEEVER, John. The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. FIRST EDITION. -- And 2 others.

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
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CHEEVER, John (1912-1982). The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953.

8vo. Original cloth (slight wear); publisher’s dust jacket (slight chipping with a few short tears and one with old cellotape repair verso, some minor toning).

FIRST EDITION of Cheever’s second short story collection, where each of the 14 stories were first published in The New Yorker.

[With:] CHEEVER. The Wapshot Chronicle. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. 8vo. (Outer margin at the head clipped.) Original cloth-backed boards (slight wear and soiling). FIRST EDITION of Cheever’s first novel and winner of the 1958 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. -- CHEEVER. The Wapshot Scandal. New York et al: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. 8vo. Original cloth (slight staining and wear); publisher’s dust jacket (slight wear and toning, short closed tear in spine panel below “JOHN”). FIRST EDITION.

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