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Tender is the night : a romance / by F. Scott Fitzgerald ; decorations by Edward Shenton

Author
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
[New York] : The Scribner Press
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 408 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Additional Creators
Shenton, Edward, 1895-1977, Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Scribner Press

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PS3511.I9T4 PS3511.I9T4 1934
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Summary
Presents a compelling story of passion and a searing commentary on dependency, revealing the dark brutality lying just beneath the surface in the civilized, glittering society of the 1920's.
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Head and tail pieces; title vignette.
Rare Books Vault copy: (1st ed., 2nd printing -- "1934" on title-page"; Scribner's "A" absent from verso of title-page; "Devereux" unchanged on page 320, line 17. See Bruccoli (A 14.I.b)); in publisher's original blue-green cloth boards and unrestored 1st state dust jacket, having quotes from T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on front flap, and $2.50 price not clipped; full page INSCRIPTION by Fitzgerald characteristically scrawled in blue ink on front free endpaper "For Shirley Britt from the man who winked at her on the subway on Easter Day 1914, [signed] F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ashville [sic], 1936. Tipped off by Martha Marie Shank." Martha Marie Shank was brought on as Fitzgerald's stenographer in October, 1936, while he was staying at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald had moved there to be near his wife, Zelda, who was seeking psychiatric treatment at Highland Hospital in Asheville. A typed letter of provenance (laid in) signed by a bookseller at House of Books, Ltd., on company letterhead dated 1968 and addressed to "Charlie" (presumably Charles W. Mann, Jr., former Curator of Rare Books at Penn State), states this copy "came directly from Miss Champion, director of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Collection at Pack [Memorial Library, Asheville]", which "had no use" for it.
Reviewed/Cited In
Bruccoli, M.J. F. Scott Fitzgerald, A 14.I.a-c
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