Fitzgerald (F. Scott) Tender is the Night, first edition, first printing, signed by the author, New York, 1934.

 

Fitzgerald (F. Scott) Tender is the Night, first edition, first printing with Scribner's "A" to title verso, signed by the author on front free endpaper, decorations and illustrations by Edward Shenton, bookseller's label to front pastedown, original cloth, patches of mottling and fading to spine and covers, slight fraying to spine tips and corners, first issue dust-jacket priced at $2.50 and with review quotes by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken and Paul Rosenfeld to front flap, light toning to spine, neat and expert repairs and restoration to head, fore-edge repaired, portion to top left of upper panel restored, but in effect a bright and excellent example, [Connolly, Modern Movement 79], 8vo, New York, 1934.

*** Fitzgerald's fourth novel, with a first printing of 7600 copies (compared with over 20,000 for The Great Gatsby).

One of only 19 copies signed by Fitzgerald in his home at the behest of the book buyer for the Baltimore department store Hochschild, Kohn & Co which label is affixed on inside back pastedown. A notable rarity signed rather than inscribed and with such a strong provenance: Fitzgerald inscribed a number of copies of this book to friends and other acquaintances, but he was seldom in a position to simply autograph copies of the book, as he did for Hochschild, Kohn, whose employee brought 25 copies to be signed but returned to the store with only 19. The whereabouts of the others are unknown.