Tender Is The Night. Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

First edition thus, first impression, in the scarce jacket. Reviving Fitzgerald's final novel (1934) in the UK, this Grey Walls publication was issued 14 years after the Chatto & Windus edition and is the second UK edition overall. The Grey Walls was the first British publisher to put many Fitzgerald titles back into print following his posthumous designation in America as among the all-time great American novelists. The 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 A15.4. Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, foxing to edges, superficial splits to front inner hinge, contents clean; unclipped jacket lightly foxed and nicked, spine toned, front panel bright: a very good copy in like jacket.