TENDER IS THE NIGHT
$160,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. TENDER IS THE NIGHT, first edition, first printing in first state dust jacket, Scribners: 1934 Inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Kent Curtis, author of THE TIRED CAPTAINS, Appleton: 1928. According to Prof. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the preeminent F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar, this book (A 15.I.a) is one of 7,600 copies first printed April 12, 1934. Printed by Scribner Press. The book was dedicated to Gerald and Sara Murphy, a wealthy couple Fitzgerald and Zelda met while living in the Riveria, France in the 1920s. Book is in original first state dust jacket with front flap reviews by T. S. Eliot, H. L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld. Original "$2.50" price is still present. Provenance: This book is inscribed by Fitzgerald on the front flyleaf to Kent Curtis. Which date exactly is unknown. Kent Curtis (1890 – 1957) was known as an American author, illustrator, World War I aviator, camp director, teacher and yachtsman. THE TIRED CAPTAINS, (included with purchase of this first edition of TENDER IS THE NIGHT), uses Curtis' personal WWI experiences as background for his novel. Throughout the 1920s, Kent Curtis lived in Paris, where he met F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Curtis also had the State of Minnesota in common with Fitzgerald, as well as the Florida islands with Hemingway. Curtis was related to Hart Crane, American poet, as well as Rockwell Kent, author and illustrator. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that he believed kent Curtis' The Blushing Camel — a boys' story
- Publisher: Scribners
- Year: 1934
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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