Lot 247
Lot 247
Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934

Price Realised USD 30,000
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USD 15,000 - USD 20,000
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Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934

Price Realised USD 30,000
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Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tender is the Night. New York: Scribner's, 1934.

A superb first edition copy, in the first issue dust jacket. Fitzgerald had nearly faded into obscurity when Tender is the Night, his last completed novel, was published. It is the portrait of expatriates Richard and Nicole Diver on the French Riviera. Bright and fresh in a dust jacket that usually has fading to its spine. Bruccoli A14.1.a.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust-jacket (the most minute rubbing to spine panel ends and extremities, short closed tear to lower margin of rear panel); custom box.
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