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F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$7.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: moderate rubbing on edges and covers. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Seller: Bank of Books, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 282 pp. A heavily used book with major internal and external wear. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Creased and skewed spine. Occassional pen markings on text.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitgerald. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Recent Reprint of Scribner's "A" 1934, DJ has taped repair at top of spine, No other damage. Slip case has two small blemishes on the spine,
Seller: Chequered Past, Jacksonville Beach, FL, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. TENDER IS THE NIGHT. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in wraps. Text highlighted throughout; highlight faded.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
F.Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is The Night-A Romance. Charles Scribners & Co, 1934.
Price: US$189.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original blue-green cloth with teal lettering on the spine- Only have the front and back flaps of the dustjacket. First edition, second printing as "1951" is on the Title page and "1934" on the copyright page. "Decorations", as they are called on the Title page, are by Edward Shenton. Quite a bit of underlining and notation by prior owner. This was 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.
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is The Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint. Blue cloth, yellow spine lettering. Modest stains on some pages, spine sunned and cocked, corners rubbed and bumped, about very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
F. scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is The Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Four Issues Complete Of The Serialization of Tender Is The Night. All Near Fine Copies. Preceded The Trade Hardcover of 1934. Quite Scarce.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is The Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint. Small tear at the foot, corners a bit bumped, a near very good copy without dustwrapper. Bookplate of Libby Holman Reynolds, the torch singer who was married to, and was later embroiled in the murder of, an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Holman was the subject of a fascinating biography by Jon Bradshaw: *Dreams That Money Can Buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman.* An interesting association copy of Fitzgerald's novel of Jazz Age partygoers and the tragedies that engulf them.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 408 p. 20 cm. Title page vignette and 68 other b&w drawings and decorations. Grey cloth hardcover. Slight soiling to covers. Ex library with ink stamps on endpapers. Pages 402-403 tore slightly when cut. Fitzgerald's fourth and final completed novel first published in Scribner's Magazine between January and April 1934. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. While the novel received only a lukewarm reception upon its initial release, it is now accepted as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished works. First edition, second issue (no A on copyright page).
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night A Romance. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK, 1934.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition Second printing. General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate on front free endpage. Small black and white illustrations. Page after the title page has some tears on the edge. No markings. Browned pages. Faded gilt on spine. DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: FIRST ED 408
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is The Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Printing. No A on copyright page. Scribner shield on copyright page. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, titles rubbed. Prior owner stamp on ffep, bfep, and inside front and back covers. Front hinge starting. 408 pages. A Very Good copy.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. vii + 408, printed in Old Style type on wove paper; pen and ink drawings (33 head-pieces and 35 tail-pieces) by Edward Shenton (1895-1977). Blue T-cloth binding, blind-stamped single rule frame on front, gilt title on spine, top and bottom edges trimmed; no dust jacket, paper gutter cracked at inside second f.f.l., but binding is square and solid; paper evenly toned with some light dampstain at top of some pages. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the year 1934 on the title page and the letter "A" on the copyright page, with the Scribner's Seal. [Bruccoli A 15.I.a]. Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, and one that the author considered to be his masterwork. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness. Scribner's Magazine serialized the novel in four installments between January and April 1934 before its publication on April 12, 1934. Following Fitzgerald's death in 1940, Tender Is the Night's critical reputation has steadily grown. Later critics have described it as "an exquisitely crafted piece of fiction" and "one of the greatest American novels". It is now widely regarded as among Fitzgerald's most accomplished works, with some agreeing with the author's assessment that it surpasses The Great Gatsby. The novel was adapted for film, television, the theater and ballet.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. A Romance. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$1352.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Green "B Cloth" with linen-like cloth. Front with blind stamped single-rule frame. Spine gilt stamped but the gilt is dulled. Light wear to the cloth at the spine ends and corners, one lightly bumped, ink name to front endpaper, with some darkening to the first blank from something once loosely inserted. The binding tight and square and the book clean throughout. No dust jacket, although we have supplied one here in facsimile. A very good copy. Bruccoli A 15.1.a.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night A Romance. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK, 1934.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition Second printing. No A on coyright 1934 to title.General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate form the library. Small black and white illustrations. No markings. Browned pages. Front hinge is slighlty cracked. Slightly faded gilt on spine. Spine almost detached. Sticker from the library on the spine. Faded spine. DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: FIRST ED 408
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrations by Edward Shenton. First edition, first printing, with Scribner's "A" present on copyright page (later printings omitted this publisher's code). Publisher's dark green cloth, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Very good, with light staining to front board and fore edge of text block, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, a touch of toning to spine, mild dimming to gilt, slight lean to spine, and a tear to p. 405. Overall, a sturdy and clean copy. Bruccoli A14.I.a. Tender is the Night is Fitzgerald's last completed novel, based on the lives of American expatriates living in Paris and the French Riviera. The book, a complicated tale of love and lust, gives readers a glimpse into the characters' stories through a series of flashbacks scattered throughout the chronological plotline. Like many of Fitzgerald's works, Tender is the Night is semi-autobiographical in nature, with the author's friends serving as models for characters, including Pablo Picasso, the Cole Porters, and socialites Sara and Gerald Murphy, to whom the book is dedicated. Interestingly, Fitzgerald took the title "Tender is the Night" from a line in John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale."
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. TENDER IS THE NIGHT. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 408 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt text on spine. Scribner's "A" and seal present on copyright page indicating First Printing. Boards show mild edge wear and shelf wear and slight bumping to corners. Text block has mild foxing to many pages and brown stain to fore edge. Shelved in Case 13. 1370775. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: "On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera." FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. A Romance by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Decorations by Edward Shenton.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition, first printing. Octavo. [viii], [1]-408 pp. Publisher's ribbed green cloth, front cover bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Pages 401-408 have been poorly opened, but this only affects the blank margins. The bare minimum of rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy with none of the foxing or browning that is often associated with this title. The first printing of 7,600 copies soon sold out, and subsequent printings continued to sell during the Depression. Fitzgerald rearranged the narrative's order for later editions and the original text was not restored for many years. "In 1932 Fitzgerald had material that he felt strongly about: Zelda's breakdown and his own deterioration. When he resumed work on the novel that would have to recoup his reputation, he had a store of painful emotions to draw on. Tender is the Night became in the writing his attempt to understand the loss of everything he had won, the loss of everything he had ever wanted" (Bruccoli, Life, p. 335). F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth and final novel, published nine years after The Great Gatsby. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Ageâ"a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Bruccoli A15.I.a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue with the Scribner's "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, with NO cocking or leans. The boards are solid with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy in collector's condition. Includes a part of the original dustjacket from the back panel laid into the book.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD F. Scott. Tender is the Night. , 1934.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with Scribner's 'A' to copyright page. Illustrated with 'decorations' by Edward Shenton. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with single blind fillet border, fore edge untrimmed. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. An excellent copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth novel, published nine years after The Great Gatsby, depicting the lives of American ex-patriots living on the French Riviera at the twilight of the Jazz Age. As usual with Fitzgerald, there is a semi-autobiographical element to the novel and the relationship between the protagonists mirrors the lives of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Neat contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and unmarked, some trivial shelf wear to corners, gilt lettering to spine slightly dulled, notwithstanding an excellent copy, square and tight.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the Scribner's "A" and publisher's seal printed on the copyright page. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with a wonderful facsimile dustjacket from the original.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. A Romance. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$9018.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First edition, first issue in second state dust jacket. Green "T Cloth" with vertical lines. Front with blind stamped single-rule frame. Spine gilt stamped but the gilt is dulled. Light rubbing to the cloth at one corner, one corner lightly bumped, and the spine ends with light wear and the cloth tender. Light dirt spot ti the front board, ink name to the front endpaper, and a small black scuff to the text block bottom. Second state dust jacket with price of $2.50, and blurbs by Mary Colum, Gilbert Seldes, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Light nicks and creases to the jacket edges, small chips in the corners, shallow chipping and creasing to the spine ends, spine edges a little rubbed and the spine moderately faded. A very good copy. Bruccoli A 15.1.a.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is The Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The book is bright, clean with little to no fading of the gold lettering. With no bumped corners, markings or other defects of significance, its condition is Fine. The dust jacket is 2nd state mostly intact save chip at the top of the spine and minor chipping to bottom of spine. It is generally clean and bright. One fold of the dust jacket has had tape reinforcing to the verso.
Seller: The Book Dispensary, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the Scribner's "A" and publisher's seal printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the First Issue points with the earliest blurbs by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld printed on the front flap of the dustjacket. Later editions have blurbs by Mary Colum, Gilbert Seldes, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The book is in great shape with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$18499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing copy, sharp-cornered with bright gilt titling. There is a light square offset to the 2nd fep, from some previously enclosed paper, else a square, tight and unmarked copy. The first issue DJ with $2.50 price and correct blurbs of Eliot, Mencken, and Rosenfeld has edgewear/chipping to spine ends/corners, toned spine panel with 2 vertical closed tears, the longer being about 5" long. This copy is housed in a fine custom clamshell box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the work which Fitzgerald considered to be his finest. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Lillian Abercrombie with best wishes of a fellow Celt F. Scott Fitzgerald." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell and chemise box. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen as perhaps his masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus." Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. It was basis for the 1962 film directed by Henry King starring Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards. The soundtrack featured a song, also called Tender Is the Night, by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics), which was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Best Song. Robards won the 1962 NBR Award for his performances in Tender Is the Night and Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This first issue dustjacket has the blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld printed on front flap. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with some repair. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Tender is the Night: A Romance.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: 408 pp. Decorations by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher's cloth in the first dust jacket, preserved in a custom full morocco folding box. First edition, first issue in the first dust jacket. A fine bright copy in a beautiful dust jacket with very slight use to the bottom of the backstrip. The backstrip is a little faded, but much less than usually seen. A two-inch split at the top of the rear jacket flap fold has been neatly closed with japanese tissue.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Typed Letter Signed [TLS]. np, Baltimore, MD, 1934.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ON HIS LITERARY INFLUENCES AND GROWTH AS A WRITER. It is rare that we get to read first hand about a writer's influences, especially during the formative years, but in answer to a letter from the scholar Egbert S. Oliver, Fitzgerald - with his characteristic wit -offers us details about his early literary education. The letter, partially quoted in Matthew Bruccoli's definitive biography, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, reads in full: 1307 Park Avenue Baltimore, Maryland January 7, 1934 Mr. Egbert S. Oliver Willamette University Salem Oregon Dear Mr. Oliver: The first help I ever had in writing in my life was from my father who read an utterly imitative Sherlock Holmes story of mine and pretended to like it. But after that I received the most invaluable aid from Mr. C. N. B. Wheeler then headmaster of the St. Paul Academy now the St. Paul Country Day School in St. Paul, Minnesota. 2. From [a] Mr. Hume, then co-headmaster of the Newman School and now headmaster of the Canterbury School. 3. From Courtland Van Winkle in freshman year at Princeton - now professor of literature at Yale (he gave us the book of Job to read and I don't think any of our preceptorial group ever quite recovered from it.) After that comes a lapse. Most of the professors seemed to me old and uninspired, or perhaps it was just that I was getting under way in my own field. I think this answers your question. This is also my permission to make full use of it with or without my name. Sorry I am unable from circumstances of time and pressure to go into it further. Sincerely, [signed] F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy from 1908 - 1911 (from the ages of 12 to 16) and Broccoli underscores the influence in particular of C.N.B. Wheeler on Fitzgerald, noting that he was the only one of his teachers who encouraged him to write. (Fitzgerald published his first work of fiction in the school newspaper.) Fitzgerald's note that after Courtland Van Winkle in his freshman year at Princeton he "was getting under way in my own field" was certainly true, for it was shortly after his class with Van Winkle that Fitzgerald began work on what would become his sparkling debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The "circumstances of time and pressure" Fitzgerald mentions at the end of the letter were very real. This letter was written in January 1934 just as Tender is the Night was beginning to appear serially in Scribner's Magazine, and then in book form on April 12, 1934. The letters surrounding the Oliver letter in Fitzgerald's collected letters are frantic letters to his editor Max Perkins working out details for the first edition of Tender is the Night. The recipient, Egbert S. Oliver, was a prominent scholar of American literature. He was Professor of American Literature at Willamette University and Portland State University and wrote numerous books on American literature and American life. The Egbert S. Oliver papers now reside at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. Provenance: Listed in F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace (Bruccoli and Baughman, 2009, p.31) as having been sold at Charles Hamilton Auction, 14 September, 1972. Typed letter signed with two hand-corrections in ink. Baltimore, Maryland, 1934. Two pages, 8.5'' x 11'' each; attractively matted and framed alongside a photo of Fitzgerald to an overall size of 32'' x 17.5''. Usual folds, paperclip imprint at top left of first page; otherwise fine. References: -Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. - Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Life in Letters, Scribner, 2010. (Published in full). -Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman, editors. F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace, University of South Carolina Press, 2009.
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$37500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Lightly worn cloth, near fine in an attractive, first issue dustwrapper with an unfaded spine and some minor repair and restoration at the extremities. Fitzgerald had all but fallen off the map when this, his last completed novel, was issued. A portrait of expatriates on the French Riviera, it was supposedly based on Gerald and Sara Murphy but is as likely based on the Fitzgeralds themselves. The 1962 film version by Henry King, the last of his many films adapted from literary novels, featured Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones. Housed in a custom clamshell case. A very nice copy of a desirable and very uncommon title, almost never encountered without fading to the spine. *Connolly 100*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$38000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing; first issue with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. In a beautiful and unrestored first issue dust jacket. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with decorations by Edward Shenton. Near Fine with light splashes to cloth, light crease to front paste down, toning to pages and old bookseller ticket to rear paste down. In a Near Fine unclipped first issue dust jacket with slight sunning to the spine, light wear at the extremities with chipping and a stray mark to the crown, a tiny spot and a small patch of light discoloration to the front panel, and a light tidemark near the foot of the spine visible from the blindside. The author's fourth and final novel. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Tender is the Night.. New York Charles Scribners' Sons, 1934.
Price: US$45375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, page stock lightly browned as usual, trivial mark to upper board but a particularly bright copy in the nicked and minimally rubbed dust jacket a little faded at the spine aqs usual but with fugitive red largely intact. A really nice copy. Fitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critical acclaim. Fitzgerald's star had already faded after the crash of 1929. As the decades passed however - and especially post Mitzner's 1948 book The Other Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night became more and more obviously a masterpiece. Also - there were few more beautiful books issued ever. The present example - totally unsophisticated, and truly lovely.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Tender is the Night: A Romance.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
Price: US$50000.00 + shipping
Description: 408 pp. Decorations by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition, first printing. Bruccoli A15.I.a. A fine copy in a beautiful unrestored dust jacket, with only a little of the usual fading to the backstrip, and a 2-1/4" split at the bottom of the front jacket fold.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$62000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the work which Fitzgerald considered to be his finest. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the unknown, unmet parents of Clare (note: double underlined). Knowing her, I hope you will find something to like in this present. Best wishes, F. Scott Fitzgerald." A very good example with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine, extremities of the cloth in a very good unrestored first issue dust jacket that has some rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise case. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate. F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen as perhaps his masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus." Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. It was basis for the 1962 film directed by Henry King starring Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards. The soundtrack featured a song, also called Tender Is the Night, by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics), which was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Best Song. Robards won the 1962 NBR Award for his performances in Tender Is the Night and Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.