Story: The Magazine of the Short Story – November 1937, Volume XI, Number 64

New York: Story Magazine Inc., 1937.

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Softcover. Single issue. Wrappers. 108 pp. Near fine with a one-inch tear to the crown and scattered spotting to the rear wrap. Text pages are clean and tight. Contains the first appearance of "Homage to Shakespeare" by John Cheever (preceding his first book), "Moll Flanders' Way" by John Peale Bishop, "Measure and Value" by Thomas Mann, and additional stories by Ethel Turner, Walter Gilkyson, James Still, Jerome Weidman, Brewster Ghiselin, Alfred Eisner, and Lewis Gannett.

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Item #344668 Story: The Magazine of the Short Story – November 1937, Volume XI, Number 64. John CHEEVER, Alfred Eisner, Brewster Ghiselin, Jerome Weidman, James Still, Walter Gilkyson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Mann, John Peal Bishop, Lewis Gannet.

John Cheever
birth name: John Cheever
born: 5/27/1912
died: 6/18/1982
nationality: USA

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Biography

American short-story writer and novelist whose work described, often through fantasy and ironic comedy, the life, manners, and morals of middle-class, suburban America. He is noted for his clear and elegant prose and his careful fashioning of incidents and anecdotes.more

Collecting tips:

Cheever is a wonderful short story writer, and his Wapshot novels are excellent, but he seems to have fallen out of favor of late (which by the way, isn't necessarily a bad thing if you are looking to collect an author's books). He was apparently not enamored of his first book, a collection of stories The Way Some People Live (1943) and he didn't allow it to be reprinted -- conveniently, at that time, anyway, no one wanted to reprint it. Printed in relatively small numbers during wartime, pretty much insured that fine copies would not grow on trees, and they don't. Cheever's family objected to some elements of the planned publication of The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 and publication was suppressed. The uncorrected proof was the only complete version that saw the light of day, and commands a premium.

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