F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Scribner's 1934, First edition, VG hardcover

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1934, English, Very Good hardcover 8vo, 5 ½” x 7 ½”, 408 pp.

First edition, first printing, Scribner’s ‘A’ symbol on copyright page. Decorations by Edward Shenton throughout. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, minor spots & cocking to spine, minor wear to tips, splitting to front gutter but still tight, front endpaper removed, descriptive text cut from rear panel of original dust jacket glued to front pastedown, bookseller stamp to lower front pastedown, scattered foxing & minor stains throughout. Association: pencil ownership signature of David Stacton to front free endpaper along with his snarky critical comments on Fitzgerald in brown ink. Stacton was a prolific gay novelist and poet, with a penchant for dressing in drag. Born in San Francisco in 1923, Stacton wrote pulp novels in various genres under numerous pseudonyms until his death in 1968. Many of his novels were reissued in 2013. Overall a very handsome unique first edition copy of Fitzgerald's fourth and final novel.