Classic F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night 1934 1st UK VG

Description: Classic F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night 1934 1st UK VG First UK edition, First Printing with 1934 on title page. Publisher: London Chatto & Windus, 1934. Octavo 7.5" X 5" [viii] 1-408. Original blue cloth with green lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Very Good Spine sunned extending to covers. Pastedowns and endpapers lightly browned. No foxing. Strong binding. Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative. (Goodreads) Fitzgerald had almost no popular success in England, and that failure was a matter of continuous vexation to him, a fact borne out in many of his letters and in every biography. William Collins had published Fitzgerald's first four books in unknown but clearly very small numbers: According to *Some Sort of Epic Grandeur*: "None of these books sold well...Collins declined 'The Great Gatsby', which was published by Chatto & Windus in 1926. The novel was not a success...." Consequently, first English editions of all five of these books are extremely uncommon. Chatto declined to publish Fitzgerald's next book, 'All the Sad Young Men' and consequently that book had no contemporary English publisher. By 1934, Fitzgerald had all but fallen off the literary map when this, his last completed novel, was issued. Apparently, the sales of 'Tender is the Night' were no better than Fitzgerald's earlier efforts in England: this first edition was the last book by Fitzgerald published in England in his lifetime. No second printing was required. Publisher Butler and Tanner issued a "cheap edition" in 1936 with leftover sheets of the first edition. Bruccoli, in his bibliography, locates four copies of the first English edition of 'Tender is the Night' locates those copies and nine others, only of five of them in the U.S. We could find only one copy of the English edition recorded as being sold at auction (during the same span of our search, 82 copies of the American first edition were sold). (Between the Covers-Rare Books)

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