First paperback edition of this classic Cheever collection, with a suggestive cover just lurid enough to make you think its title might be a euphemism.
Very good.
Price: $100.00
"Jim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place, they went to the theatre on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live in Westchester."
Cheever's first book, it contains one of his best-known stories, the sf/fantasy inflected title tale whose themes (suburban and bourgeois ennui) would anticipate the work of much of his career. Oddly uncommon.
First printing. New York: Berkley Publishing Corp, (1958). 6.5''x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Cover price.35; Berkley G-119. [2], 190 pages. Slight lean and some creasing to spine. Tiny chip to bottom corner rear cover. Overall, sound.
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