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Gertrude Stein. The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family. By Gertrude Stein, preface by Bernard Fay, and published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1934, 416 pp, hardcover binding with original dust jacket. In good condition. Dust jacket has some age-related toning and wear that has caused some tearing. Covers and spine beneath the dust jacket have some age-related toning and wear that has caused slight bending, tearing, and discoloration. The first inside page has a newspaper clipping stapled on, entitled "Psychiatrists 'Explain' Gertrude Stein's Works". Pages have age-related toning and foxing. Hinges have some wear, but pages remain attached and generally have good support throughout. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. Getrude Stein was an American novelist, playwright, poet, and art collector. She hosted a Paris salon after moving there in 1903, attracting attention from writers and artists such as Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse, and more. Her influence on twentieth century literature remains relevant to modern audiences. A great collector's item. Any issues with hinges or binding due to age or wear could provide an excellent opportunity for restoration or rebinding, if desired. RAREA1934BDFB JR1111
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
F Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. The Modern Library,, New York, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Good, spine has fading, front board has a stain.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About very good condition with worn through corners and a faded spine with worn ends. Stated first edition in green flexible cloth. The jacket is missing.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, 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. The Great Gatsby. Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: First Modern Library edition and first printing. Small hardcover. 218 pages. Fitzgerald's classic novel with a new introduction by him for this edition. A near fine copy in green cloth boards with some very minor wear and in a very good plus first issue dust jacket that mentions only 225 titles and with some tiny edge chips, slight wear and some very slight fading to the spine. A very nice copy of this elusive edition in any dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, 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.
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.