The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever 1957 - Harper &, New York - First Edition A fine first edition of Cheever’s work that won him the 1958 National Book Award, establishing him as a major novelist.

John Cheever’s classic novel about one eccentric New England family, inspired by the author’s own adolescence. The Wapshots have called the quintessential Massachusetts fishing village of St. Botolphs home for eons, but now it is time for the next generation – brothers Moses and Coverly – to go out and see the world.

By turns tragic and deeply funny,
The Wapshot Chronicle is a “richly inventive and vividly told” (The New York Times Magazine) work of fiction about one very odd family. [Penguin]
  In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Wapshot Chronicle 63rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Octavo (book size 21.2x14.9cm), pp. [8] 307 [5]. In publisher’s black cloth spine and green cloth boards, spine lettered in yellow and red, top edge trimmed others untrimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$3.50’ to upper corner of front flap.
  Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.   Ref: 111782   Price: HK$ 3,000