Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

Tender is the Night. New York: Scribner's, 1934
cloth, paper, ink

8vo. Original gilt stamped green cloth in illustrated dust jacket depicting a Riviera scene; spine rubbed and few spots to cloth, jacket with Eliot and Mencken blurbs backed and restored. Folding case.

Literature

Bruccoli A14.1a; Connolly 79

Catalogue Note

First edition of the author's other masterpiece.

"(...) flashes of genius by an expert in self-destruction, (...) the predicament of grace under pressure from too many parties and too much money" (Connolly)

Only 15,000 copies comprised the first three printings and the royalties earned failed to pay off Fitzgerald's debt to his publisher. It's underserved failure was to accelerate the author's downward spiral.