CHEEVER, JOHN — The Wapshot Scandal
NY: Harper & Row, 1964. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated first edition, first printing. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on black panel on spine, tan endpapers, fore-edge deckle. The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever, is a follow-up to his National Book Award-winning The Wapshot Chronicle. It was Cheever's second published novel, and won the William Dean Howells Medal in 1965. The scandal of the title involves one of the Wapshot wives running off with an 18-year-old bagboy from the local A&P and making a life with him in Italy.. Very slight rubbing at the head of the spine; otherwise unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, shows almost imperceptible sunning of the spine, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE.. Mass Market PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 309, (1) pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
