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![FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. "The Cruise of the Rolling Junk" as published in Motor Magazine, February-April 1924. Together, 3 issues [complete story].](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/swanngalleries/17/110317/H0132-L03460257.jpg)
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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. "The Cruise of the Rolling Junk" as published in Motor Magazine, February-April 1924. Together, 3 issues [complete story].
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. "The Cruise of the Rolling Junk" as published in Motor Magazine, February-April 1924. Together, 3 issues [complete story]. Photographic illustrated story. Folio, color pictorial covers of fashionable women and cars by Howard Chandler Christy, paper loss to feet of spines and to head of April issue, gentle creasing to some corners, faint pencil signature to cover of February issue, toning to outer edges of February and March issues, darker on latter, otherwise very clean. New York: International Magazine Company [R.W. Hearst], 1924
- Notes: scarce first appearance of a humorous travel article describing the Fitzgeralds' motoring trip from Westport, Connecticut to Montgomery, Alabama in search of good Southern biscuits and peaches in a secondhand Expenso touring car nicknamed "The Rolling Junk." The photographs illustrate the couple's trials and tribulations such as Fitz patching tires while Zelda dozes in the driver's seat; he poking a stick into the engine with trepidation while she, fingers stuck in ears, awaits the seemingly inevitable explosion. The prose is Fitzgerald at his most witty and fluent as evidenced by the opening line: "The sun which had been tapping for an hour at my closed lids, pounded suddenly on my eyes with broad hot hammers. The room became crowded with light and the fading frivolities on the wall paper mourned the florid triumph of noon. I awoke into Connecticut and a normal world." The work was reprinted separately in 1976 in an edition of 1000 copies by Bruccoli Clark. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Columbia, South Carolina, 1976. Bruccoli C133. We could locate no sets appearing at auction.
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