A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Tender is the Night, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=F.+Scott+Fitzgerald&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>.<ul><li>F. Scott Fitzgerald (American).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.</li><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Bound in publisher's green cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine and blind rules to the boards, additionally with the first issue dusk jacket.</li></ul> The present example retains the first issue dust jacket, with the original price of $2.50 and the reviews by T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld to the front flap. The rear flap lists Fitzgerald’s earlier novels, short stories and play, including The Great Gatsby and The Vegetable. With the requisite ‘A’ and seal to the copyright page and decorations by Edward Shenton. Set against the glamour of the French Riviera, Fitzgerald’s final completed novel follows the troubled marriage of Dick and Nicole Diver. Drawing upon his experiences with Zelda, it explores wealth, emotional dependency and the collapse of youthful promise.&nbsp;

Tender is the Night First Edition

Fitzgerald, F. ScottTender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 8vo. With decorations by Edward Shenton. Original dark bluish green cloth (linen-like grain). Jacket with blurbs by Clum, Seldes and Rawlings on front flap; very good with some wear at extremities and paper repairs on verso. First edition, first printing in the second state jacket. Fitzgerald began Tender is the Night in 1925, the same year The Great Gatsby was published. He know he had written an important book with Gatsby, but thought that his success hinged at the follow-up. By the time he had finished Tender in 1933, however, his life had taken several torturous turns: Zelda's breakdown and the onset of the Great Depression darkened Fitzgerald's sensibilities, a shift which became evident in portions of the book.&nbsp; REFERENCESBruccoli A14.I.a

Tender is the Night, first edition

A photographic portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald.<ul><li>Carl Van Vechten (American).</li><li>Stamped in blind "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten", lower right of image.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>

Photograph Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of All The Sad Young Men by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=F.+Scott+Fitzgerald&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>.<ul><li>F. Scott Fitzgerald (American).</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.</li><li>Original full green cloth, lettered in blind on front board and in gilt on spine, original unclipped brown pictorial dust jacket with flapper on front panel by Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins, Scribner's seal on copyright page.</li></ul> Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories, this book followed directly in the wake of Gatsby's success.&nbsp;

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