tender night di fitzgerald scott

Descrizione: New York Scribner 1934, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Signed presentation copy from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his co-screenwriter, Edward (Ted) Paramore, Jr., on the MGM film, Three Comrades, the only film on which Fitzgerald received screen credit as screenwriter, along with Paramore. Inscribed: ÒFor Ted Paramore. In memory of those days when we used to forage in the drunken infantry under your orders. From his friend, Scott Fitzgerald. M.G.M. 1937.Ó This is the only known presentation copy in which Fitzgerald indicates that he actually signed it at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio where he and Paramore wrote the screenplay. With ParamoreÕs bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good plus in a very good first issue dust jacket which has had restoration by an expert paper conservationist. Enclosed in a matching green cloth clamshell box. Edward Paramore Jr. (1898-1956) was a New York writer who gained acclaim with The Ballad of Yukon Jake (1928), an amusing parody of Robert W. Service, first published in Vanity Fair and then in book form with illustrations by Rockwell Kent. After having two plays produced on Broadway, Paramore was lured to Hollywood during the revolution in sound films. He had a successful screenwriting career (1929-1943) including writing The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) for director Frank Capra starring Barbara Stanwyck. He wrote screenplays that starred the likes of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, Henry Fonda, Janet Gaynor, Rosalind Russell, Robert Montgomery, Joan Fontaine, Wallace Beery, Richard Dix, etc. An historic association copy from the peak of F. Scott FitzgeraldÕs Hollywood sojourn. Codice articolo 14651J

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Descrizione: New York: ScribnerÕs, 1934, 1934. First Edition. Very good in a first issue dust jacket with a fingernail-sized chip at the bottom of the front panel and some creases and interior archival mends where tape has been removed; but the spine is much less faded than usual.Presentation copy; inscribed, 'For Edward Everett Horton, Page 74 et sequitor may interest you to dip into if you like cathedral tours - and my daughters evidence is that you do. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Encino, 1939.' Fitzgerald moved for the winter from Malibu into Horton's Encino estate in November, 1938. Horton's long film career spanned nearly fifty years; many of us fondly remember him as the narrator of 'Fractured Fairy Tales' in Rocky and Bullwinkle. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Codice articolo 18617

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. First edition of the work which Fitzgerald considered to be his finest. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a full page inscription, "For Harry Joe Brown - late of the 17th Infantry Brigade. Wounded in Hollywood 1920-1940. - from his fellow dough boy F Scott Fitzgerald Encino, 1939." The recipient, Harry Joe Brown was a Hollywood producer, who Fitzgerald noted meeting in late 1939: "Somewhere around this time [September 1939] Harry Joe Brown called me over to Twentieth Century Fox on a Sonja Heine picture" (Letter to the Berg-Allenberg Agency, 23 February 1940). Fitzgerald had been contracted as a writer by Metro Goldwyn Meyer Studios in the July of 1937, initially for six months. His contract was then extended for another year, but when this lapsed in December 1938 MGM did not renew it. Over the next two years, Fitzgerald freelanced for numerous studios on a number of films, including Everything Happens at Night for which Brown was an associate producer. An excellent near fine example in a very good first issue dust jacket with some light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell 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. Codice articolo 7340

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. 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 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. Codice articolo 3071

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Descrizione: New York: Scribner s, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original pictorial wrappers made by the publisher from the dust jacket. Some restoration to rear wrapper affecting the right margin of the jacket copy, marginal stain to p. 27, light spotting to endpapers, else very good. FIRST EDITION, the extremely rare advance issue in wrappers. Fitzgerald considered Tender is the Night, his fourth and final novel, to be his masterpiece, surpassing The Great Gatsby. Following an initially lukewarm reception, the novel s reputation has steadily risen. Ernest Hemingway later observed that Tender is the Night gets better and better. The novel is now acclaimed as one of the great works of modern American literature. The author s first novel in nine years, following The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night tells the story of the rise and fall of a glamorous couple, the psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who is one of his patients. At the time Joyce s wife Zelda was hospitalized for schizophrenia. The advance issue of Tender is the Night is one of the great Fitzgerald rarities Of Fitzgerald s eight novels, this is the only one for which advance copies were issued. They are complete texts not dummies and were probably intended for use as review copies and salesman s copies. The Scribner s records indicate that five hundred copies were ordered, but it is unlikely that that many copies were distributed because it is so rare: three institutional copies have been located [Virginia, Pierpont Morgan, and the Bruccoli Collection at the University of South Carolina] . These are the most collectible copies of Tender is the Night in terms of priority and rarity (Bruccoli and Baughman, F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace). The book has been the subject of stage, screen, theater, television, and ballet adaptations. Very rare: leading Fitzgerald bibliographer and collector Matthew Bruccoli located only three copies. Only two examples appear in the auction records of the past fifty years. Provenance: Henry Barnard Strong, with bookplate. Strong was member of the Yale class of 1922 and a member of Skull & Bones. Gerald Murphy, the model for Dick Diver in Tender is the Night, was likewise a Skull & Bones man. Codice articolo ABE-1511290158436

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Descrizione: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934, 1934. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Cloth a little worn and marked, front free endpaper neatly torn out, almost certainly by the author, text block slightly shaken, rear hinge expertly repaired. A very good copy. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank to his sometime lover, Margaret Case Harriman, "For Margaret Harriman, who has inspired all my books this tale of our life together in Switzerland, France & U.S.S.R. from Her Chattel F. Scott Fitzgerald July 1935", together with a line clipped from a pencilled autograph letter from the author ("you are very lovely") pasted to the second blank. "In signing letters or inscribing books to women, Fitzgerald used to call himself 'Your Chattel,' a curious and seemingly inappropriate phrase that conveyed no less than the truth: that he was a virtual slave to his need to attract nearly every woman he met" (Donaldson, p. 125). Fitzgerald's use of the phrase "our life in Switzerland, France & U.S.S.R." in the inscription refers to his life with Zelda, not Margaret - much of Tender is the Night is set in the French Riviera and Switzerland, paralleling the Fitzgeralds' life there in the 1920s. Intriguingly, the front free endpaper was almost certainly torn out of this copy by Fitzgerald. It is possible that he initially inscribed the front free endpaper, as was his custom, and having made a mistake, tore it out and inscribed the first blank instead. At the time this copy was inscribed, Zelda was being held at the Sheppard-Pratt hospital in Baltimore for psychiatric treatment, and Fitzgerald, reeling from the poor critical reception of Tender is the Night the previous year, increasingly dependent on alcohol, and in straitened financial circumstances, went through a period of intense womanizing in the summer of 1935. "From the evidence of his ledger, with its notes on each month's activities, it is clear that Fitzgerald devoted much of 1935 to the pursuit of women wherever he went, that summer of 1935, he felt compelled to win the admiration of a woman" (Donaldson, p. 127). Margaret Harriman, a writer herself, who contributed to the New York Times and later authored The Vicious Circle, among other books, was one such liaison. "According to Fitzgerald's ledger, the two of them foregathered in New York twice, in late July 1935 and in December 1936. The 1935 meeting concluded with Fitzgerald badly hungover and nursing a wounded ego from Margaret's remark that novelist Joseph Hergesheimer was 'more established' than he" (Donaldson, p. 141). In a letter to Margaret after their July meeting, Fitzgerald wrote, "I started to come to New York yesterday afternoon, to see you, because I thought you'd think I'd run out on you, instead of on my own wretched state of mind and health when I see you again I want everything to be right - even if I find you engrossed in a love affair with Geo V. and have no time for me" (Letters, August 1935). He went on to address her comment on Hergesheimer: "Of course he is more established than I am, in the same way that Hugh Walpole is more 'established' than D. H. Lawrence - established with whom? But it is simply another sort of writing. Almost everything I write in novels goes, for better or worse, into the subconscious of the reader. People have told me years later things like 'The Story of Benjamin Button' in the form of an anecdote, having long forgotten who wrote it. This is probably the most egotistic thing about my writing I've ever put into script or even said oh, there's so much to hear you say, no matter how much I'd be cynical about" (ibid.). Fitzgerald considered incorporating their affair into The Last Tycoon, with one of his working notes reading "'Put in Margaret Case episode after his wife's death'" (Donaldson, p. 141). Bruccoli A15.I.a. Scott Donaldson, Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2001. Codice articolo 125792

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Descrizione: Scribners, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald on a laid in signature. This first issue dustjacket has the blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld printed on front flap. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has benefitted from some professional restoration to the spine ends and panels. The end result is a stunning dustjacket that is vibrant in color with no chips or tears to the dustjacket. The book is in nice shape. The boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The binding is tight, and there is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this true first edition in SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Fitzgerald First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo ABE-874197125

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 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*. Codice articolo 364639

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. 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. Codice articolo 87567

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Descrizione: Scribner, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Issue dustjacket with blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld printed on front flap. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has benefitted from some professional restoration to the spine and edges. The end result is a spectacular dustjacket that is rich in color with no chips or tears to the dustjacket. The book is in wonderful shape. The boards are crisp with light wear to the panels. The binding is tight, and there is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, an amazing copy of this true first edition with the scarce dustjacket. Codice articolo ABE-4703511250

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Descrizione: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934, 1934. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box with marbled sides. A fine copy in a very nice example of the jacket, spine just slightly faded, closed tear to head of front panel but presenting nicely, a little minor chipping to spine ends and extremities, one small tape repair to verso. Illustrations in the text by Edward Shenton. First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald's fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally challenging, the struggle of its inception was matched perhaps only by the scale of critical disdain. Fitzgerald was so distressed by the antagonism from most quarters that he agreed to allow later editions to be published with the narrative rearranged chronologically. Only years after his death was the text restored and the true brilliance of this work recognised. Bruccoli A15.I.a. Codice articolo 131046

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Condizione: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Advance review copy. [viii], 408 pp. Plain brown wrappers with title, author, and publication date written in pen on front wrap. Very Good, faint dampstain affecting the lower quarter of the title on the wrapper and free endpaper, the text block with a minute residual stain just visible in the extreme outer margin of the first ten leaves or so; rear wrap and terminals have smaller dampstain. Front wrap corner creased as well, slight cock to spine. A scarce variant, perhaps the earliest state, of the only Fitzgerald title to appear in advance form. Variant ARC unrecorded by Matthew Bruccoli in F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Bibliography. He only records copies bound in wrappers made from a dust jacket trimmed to size, stating "These are the most collectible copies of Tender is the Night in terms of priority and rarity." He notes only three copies in institutions; additionally, we note two of those copies in the auction records only, and two others currently offered in the trade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Marketplace Bruccoli speculates that the reason for their scarcity is that the vast majority of ARCs were bound in cloth by the publisher and sold as trade copies. The textblock of our variant copy is about an eighth of an inch shorter than the published book; the brown wrappers are clearly integral with no indication of a jacket ever having been mounted to them. This is very well may be an earlier state of the ARC than that which Bruccoli describes, prepared perhaps before the jacket design was complete. Codice articolo 140938271

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Descrizione: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 8vo., [viii], [1]-408 pp., title-vignette, headpieces and tailpieces. Original blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on the backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy, dust jacket with a few small chips at edges and flap folds, backstrip very slightly faded, otherwise clean and bright and the cloth fresh and clean, gilt lettering bright. § First edition, first printing, 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. This copy was purchased on publication and has been with the same owner ever since. Codice articolo 108673

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. 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. Codice articolo 17839

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Descrizione: Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the ORIGINAL dustjacket. A stunning First issue dustjacket with NO chips or tears with some repair. The book is excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with minor discoloration to endpaper. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Fitzgerald First Editions. Codice articolo ABE-15102070011

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Condizione: Very Good binding. First Edition. Advance copy of the First Edition of Firtzgerald's fourth and last novel, in the original wrappers contrived by the publisher from the dust jacket. Brucolli A14,I.a and Supplement (1980) note only a handful of copies: "One copy bound in wrappers made from the dust jacket has been located at ViU . It may have been used as an advance or review copy. [The Supplement notes a couple of additional copies]. The Scribner's records indicate that 500 copies in wrappers were ordered; but since only one [three?] copy has been located, it seems doubtful that these copies were actually prepared." [Bruccoli, A,14.1.a] With corner loss to the top of the front panel affecting the "LD" in Fitzgerald, and the "S" in "is". The lost corner replaced now by a conservator with stock in plain green so as not to deceive the eye but to blend with the existing panel. With some "bleed" the verso of the front panel; and a bit of wrinkling and a light crease to the first blank leaf. There is a small stain to the leading edge of the textblock. Minor sunning to the spine. To call this uncommon would be an understatement. (Brucolli A14.I.a; Supplement (1980)). Very Good binding. Codice articolo 281303

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. This First Issue dustjacket has the correct blurbs of Eliot, Mencken, and Rosenfeld on the front flap. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the $2.50 printed price present with some wear to the panels including a small chip to the bottom spine. The book is nice condition. The gold lettering on the spine is present with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful UNRESTORED copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the scarce dustjacket. Codice articolo ABE-13163562369

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Descrizione: New York, 1928. No Binding. Condizione: Fine. Autograph Letter Signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald") New York, December 28, 1928, to Mr. Wallace, regarding adapting his work. This letter is beautifully matted and framed with a young portrait of F.Scott Fitzgerald. This letter was written from his West 59th Street apartment. Fitzgerald responds to a query from a theatrical producer: "Considering that Head & Shoulders has been done in the movies I'm not inclined to think it'd be financially worth while dramatizing it. And, honestly, I'm not awfully proud of it. / Still working on my novel." "Head and Shoulders" first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and was later collected in Flappers and Philosophers. The novel he mentions is likely The Beautiful and the Damned. A wonderful hand written letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald in ink and SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Fitzgerald First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo ABE-1469084313795

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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. Codice articolo T-113-MD-X

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons / Rutgers University Press, New York. Finely bound set of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Octavo, 15 volumes, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. An exceptional set. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, displayed a sophisticated cynicism masking keen psychological insight and sensitivity to the falseness of the ideals of the so-called "jazz era" in America, following World War 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write on this theme in two volumes of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age. With the publication of The Great Gatsby, the story of a gross and ostentatious man who gained immense material success but who destroyed himself and those around him in the process, F. Scott Fitzgerald's full powers as a novelist were revealed; he was ranked by many critics as one of the pre-eminent American writers. In his later writings, as exemplified by the short story collections All the Sad Young Men and Taps at Reveille, and the novel Tender is the Night, his central theme shifted to what he deemed the inevitable corruption of the individual by the blind crassness of modern society. Codice articolo 90632

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Descrizione: Scribners, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Scarce First Edition/First Printing (with "A" on CP) in First State Dust Jacket (with blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld). The Book is about VG with fairly bright gilt. Some wear and soiling. No names, writing or bookplates. The DJ is Near Fine, but has benefitted from complete professional restoration. Housed in Custom Drop Box. A Classic!. Codice articolo ABE-1575830584402

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Descrizione: Scribner's, New York, 1934. First edition. Original green cloth, bookplate or ink inscription removed from front pastedown; a very good copy in restored dust jacket. Full morocco case. Codice articolo 27865

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with bright spine gilt and clean boards. In a Very Good second issue dust jacket with the $2.50 price and reviews by Colum, Seldes and Rawlings. Jacket with some moderate chipping at the crown (some loss), and a few longer tears on the rear panel and flap fold. Faint evidence of tape removal from the verso of the jacket. Nearing the end of his life, Fitzgerald contemplates marriage, success, and the emotional toll that mental health problems can take on a couple. This haunting novel set in the 1920s follows Dick and Nicole Driver's troubled marriage, and the damage imposed by his affair with a young actress. These same troubles were echoed in Fitzgerald's own family; his wife Zelda, having struggled her whole life with depression, had been placed long-term in a sanitarium, while Fitzgerald battled alcoholism and strove to re-launch his career in Hollywood. Unbeknownst to the author, this self-reflecting book would be the last of his lifetime. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Codice articolo 2554

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Descrizione: New York, Charles Scribner s Sons, 1934. Couverture rigide. Condizione: Très bon. Edition originale. New York, Charles Scribner s Sons, 1934. In-8 de (4) ff., 408 pp. Toile verte d éditeur, titre et nom de l auteur dorés au dos, petite tache claire sur le plat supérieur. Reliure de l époque. 186 x 132 mm. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE DU DERNIER CHEF-D UVRE DE FITZGERALD. First edition first printing of Fitzgerald s last masterpiece, with the Scribner seal & the letter "A". Bruccoli, A15.1.a. Ce roman, que la critique accueillit avec des réactions fort diverses, peut être considéré à certains égards comme une transposition émouvante de la propre destinée de l auteur. A BEAUTIFUL COPY, PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, AS ISSUED. Codice articolo ABE-1542733793431

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 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. Codice articolo ABE-11130960752

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Descrizione: Scribners, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. A near fine first printing (1934 on title page and Scribner's seal and A on copyright page) in a good second issue dust jacket (with blurbs on the front flap). Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Codice articolo 1512010

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Descrizione: London, England: Penguin/Penguin Designer Classics, 2006. Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 346 pages. Published in 2006. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful Artist Book interpretations of the classic ever created. Limited Edition of one numbered and signed copy. Should not be confused with the Limited Edition of 1000 copies. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Sam Taylor-Wood: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 4 pounds. Black cloth boards, as issued. Text by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Art by Sam Taylor-Wood. She utilizes one of her most austerely beautiful photographs on glassine paper that serves as the Artist Book's translucent inner DJ. White cardboard box. Printed on archival acid-free stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. In transparent Plexiglas ("Perspex") box, which serves as the book's outer DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of Penguin Book's 60th Anniversary, "Tender Is The Night: A Romance" is one of five classics that the publisher issued in a Limited Edition by commissioning five of the world's most important artists in their respective fields. The other titles are Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment" and "The Idiot" (he is the only novelist to be honored with two masterpieces in the Series). Penguin held a global auction of the "Number 1" signed copy of each title on the day of its 60th Anniversary in 2006. Re-presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night: A Romance". Sam Taylor-Wood's Artist Book rendition: The ultimate book-as-object, the literary classic as work of art, worthy of Penguin's auspicious celebration and of posterity. Shows "an elegant young man as he stands before us with his hands in his pocket and bare feet. He perfectly sums up the elegance and fragility of Nicole and Dick Driver's world" (Publisher's blurb). Sam Taylor-Wood is one of the most brilliant artist/photographer/filmmakers of our time. She is especially noted for her unvarnished portraits of ordinary subjects as well as the most well-known celebrities of the day. Many consider her to be the natural successor to Avedon as well as Annie Leibovitz, but that judgment, while flattering, does not quite do justice to the singular qualities of her work. An absolute "must-have" edition for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sam Taylor-Wood collectors. This copy of the Limited Edition is Number 1, indicated as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Sam Taylor-Wood. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is the only such signed copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: By special arrangement with Penguin, Sam Taylor-Wood signed only the first copy of the Limited Edition. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest novels of all time, re-interpreted by one of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 0713999500. Signed by Author. Codice articolo 11377

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Descrizione: Scribner, Scribner's, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Good first edition in a complete but only fair second issue jacket with the correct original price of $2.50 on the front flap but with the wrong blurbs. Water damage on back panel of jacket. First edition with Scribner's seal and letter A on copyright page, and correct year on title page. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 187 x 130 mm). [x], [1-408, [2, blank] pp. Housed in a custom slipcase. In this novel, the protagonist, psychiatrist Dick Diver, falls in love and marries one of his patients, the beautiful yet disturbed Nicole. Dicks travails with her (he nurses her to health, but she leaves him for another man and he deteriorates) echo Fitzgeralds own increasingly sad and desperate life with his mentally ill wife, Zelda. This is perhaps Fitzgeralds most powerful and tragic work. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A.14.1.a. Codice articolo 1307053

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Descrizione: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A wonderful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with a minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION housed in a lovely clamshell slipcase for preservation. Codice articolo ABE-1481654680318

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