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Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Collectors Reprints/First Edition Library, circa 1990s. Near Fine. Exact facsimile first edition as published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1934. The only new additions are on the copyright page stating Collectors Reprints and FEL on the bottom of the rear flap. These facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish, and texture as the originals. Tight and square with solid hinges and good tips. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Publisher printing error of thin ink strip to the top of page 361. The dust jacket is unclipped ($2.50) with faint shelf wear. Protected in a Mylar cover. 408 pages. 5½ x 8" tall.
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the 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.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4477
- Title
- Tender is the Night
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Facsimile
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collectors Reprints/First Edition Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Pages
- 408
- Size
- 5.5 x 8
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- facsimile, classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collector's Editions;
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