Sale 2508 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 14, 2019

121 c   FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Tender is the Night. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher’s dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, hint of mottling to spine; original dust jacket, old cellotape repairs to spine panel verso mending short closed tears and shallow chipping to head, rear panel toned with two stains, fold corners nicked; first divisional title with small loss to blank margin. NewYork: Scribner’s, 1934 [3,000/4,000] first edition , first printing with first issue dust jacket having blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld, and $2.50 price intact.“Everything hinged onTender is the Night ... he was nervous about it on several counts.The man who had begun it in 1925, who had fashioned the beautiful barbarism of its opening sequences, wasn’t the same man who completed it in 1933; in between, Zelda’s breakdown, the crumbling of American prosperity, and other reverses had changed and darkened his sensibility” (Turnbull, pp. 241-46). Bruccoli A14.1.a; Connolly,The Modern Movement 79. 122 c   FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Tender is the Night. Decorated by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher’s dark green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, spine tips and corners rubbed with slight fraying; effaced ownership signature, bookplate to front pastedown. first edition . NewYork: Scribner’s, 1934 [300/400] 123 c   FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Group of 3 First Editions. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; lacking original dust jackets; further notes below. NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, vd [500/750] Flappers and Philosophers. Few small blemishes to covers. 1920 * The Beautiful and Damned. Slightly shaken, rear hinge cracked, ownership inscription, facsimile dust jacket. 1922 * All the Sad Young Men. Facsimile dust jacket. 1926. 121