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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. A Romance. New York: Scribner's, 1934.
8o. Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (pale offsetting from newsclipping on front free endpaper); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Barary Library (stamp on pastedown); Granada Book Shop (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD on the front free endpaper: "Dear Curtis--you've been so appreciative of my books in the past that I thought this might amuse you. Scott Fitzgerald." Bruccoli A14.I.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 79: "The break-down of a marriage...is described with flashes of genius by an expert in self-destruction...and there is a haunting account...of the predicament of 'grace under pressure' from too many parties and too much money."
8o. Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered (pale offsetting from newsclipping on front free endpaper); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Barary Library (stamp on pastedown); Granada Book Shop (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD on the front free endpaper: "Dear Curtis--you've been so appreciative of my books in the past that I thought this might amuse you. Scott Fitzgerald." Bruccoli A14.I.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 79: "The break-down of a marriage...is described with flashes of genius by an expert in self-destruction...and there is a haunting account...of the predicament of 'grace under pressure' from too many parties and too much money."