Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night
$1500 American
Hardcover. First edition, first printing with Scribner "A" and seal on copyright page. Octavo, green cloth, spine is gilt-lettered. A very good copy of the first printing, scarce with only 7,600 published in the initial print run. Bumping and chipping on tail and headcap. Inscription of previous owner on front free endpaper in dip pen. Contained crack between the second and third pages ffps. Fitzgerald: "One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it." More photos, or video, available on request.
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
- Paper Birch Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PB-0006
- Title
- Tender is the Night
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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