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Tender is the Night.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
8vo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo, 408 pp. Original dark green cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Very good condition, light shelf wear, prior owner's name and gift inscription on front fly-leaf and no other markings. With rare, first state dust jacket, albeit unrestored and faded. Housed in custom clamshell case. § First edition, first printing, with Scribner's seal and letter A on copyright page, dust jacket (front flap) has blurbs by T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (1896-1940) final novel, written over the course of nearly a decade, and reflecting the turmoil that surrounded him, including his financial insecurity, his wife’s hospitalization, and his uncertain future. One of only 7600 copies printed, considerably more scarce than the first edition of The Great Gatsby, which had a first print run of over 20,000 copies.
Synopsis
Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel in nine years (since The Great Gatsby in 1925) and his fourth and final to complete. The generally autobiographical work reflects events surrounding the hospitalization of Fitzgerald’s schizophrenic wife, Zelda, and his own unrelenting alcoholism. Tender is the Night was published in four issues of Scribner's Magazine (January — April) until Charles Scribner’s Sons produced the first novel edition in April 1934. The novel, whose title comes from John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” has two versions in print: the original, which uses flashbacks in the narrative, and the second, revised version, published posthumously by Malcolm Cowley, in which the storyline is restructured so that events take place chronologically. Some have suggested that this particular revision was in reaction to critics of the original. Tender is the Night sold only 12,000 copies in its first three months compared to Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, which sold over 50,000 in a similar time period. Still, reception for Tender is the Night steadily grew over time. Today, it is ranked 28th on the Modern Library’s list of the “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century as well as 69th on NPR’s “100 Years, 100 Novels, One List.”
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- Bookseller
- John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125462
- Title
- Tender is the Night.
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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