Tender is The Night
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing with the Scribner seal present on the copyright page. Rare original first issue dust jacket with the earliest blurbs on the front flap by Eliot, Mencken & Rosenfield. Measuring approximately 7.75" x 5.25", with 408 numbered pages.
This book is in very good condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. The dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Minor wear at the extremities, most noticeable at the spine ends. Old tape repair at the top of spine. Original $2.50 price is present on the front flap.
Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole struggles with mental illness.
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Inventory #(P1-75). Item #7000
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