Tender Is The Night. With The Author's Final Revisions And A Preface By Malcolm Cowley. Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

First UK revised edition, first impression, containing Fitzgerald's final version of his last novel. The Grey Walls Press led the UK revival of Fitzgerald in the 1940s, the same decade that US publishers rescued him from obscurity and established his reputation among the all-time great American novelists. The jacket design, showing a gritty panoramic street scene, evidences the press's bold style of cover art. The revised text was first published in America two years earlier. The corrections are based on Fitzgerald's own annotated copy, of which he stated, "This is the final version of the book as I would like it" (p. xv). The present edition is the second Grey Walls edition overall, following their publication of the uncorrected text in 1948 with different cover art than seen here. The novel was first published in America and Britain in 1934. The Grey Walls Press was founded in 1940 by the poet and editor of Poetry Quarterly, Charles Wrey Gardiner (1901-1981), in Billericay, Essex. Its operations ceased in 1954. Bruccoli A16.2.a. Octavo. Original pale brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Pale foxing on fore edge, partial browning to free endpapers, as usual, contents clean; minimal creases to jacket, unclipped: a fine copy in like jacket.