Tender Is the Night

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tiny early new bookstore label (from Charles Lauriat in Boston) on front fly, else a particularly fine and bright copy in a handsome very good or better first issue dust jacket with older professional restoration, particularly at the spine ends and spine folds with the slightest touch of the usually endemic spine fading. The first issue of the jacket is particularly scarce. Fitzgerald had all but fallen off the map when this, his last completed novel, was issued. A portrait of expatriates on the French Riviera, it was supposedly based on Gerald and Sara Murphy but is just as likely based on the Fitzgeralds themselves. The 1962 film version by Henry King, the last of his many films adapted from literary novels, featured Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones. A solid, handsome copy of an increasingly desirable book. *Connolly 100*. (Inventory #: 601464)