CHEEVER, JOHN — The Wapshot Chronicle
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated first edition, first printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over green boards, red and yellow lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle. The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village. Published in 1957, it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1958, and was followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Wapshot Chronicle 63rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Very slight shelf-wear, spine lightly creased, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is very slightly worn on edges only, and lightly browned along the top edge of the front flap only, otherwise fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 307, (1) pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
