Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Tender is the Night. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth, slight lean, extremities worn with exposure, spine tips frayed with crude tape mends, front joint split, spine gilt dulled with tears; news clippings cellotaped to front flyleaf and following blank, TLS by Alexander Clark of Princeton laid-in. First edition, later printing, with a presentation inscription by Fitzgerald on irregularly clipped plain sheet cellotaped to front pastedown reading: "For Holger [Lundbergh] / from his [?] / devotedly / Scott Fitzgerald." While the extent of their relationship isn't clear, Fitzgerald and Lundbergh did enjoy a correspondence, however brief (the laid in 1-page TLS on Princeton University Library stationery signed by Mr. Clark the Manuscripts Curator, dated 19 March, 1969, confirms Lundbergh's gift of 3 Fitzgerald holograph letters to him to be added to Princeton's Fitzgerald holdings). A letter from Fitzgerald to Maxwell Perkins (circa 1 March, 1929) includes a favorable mention of Lundbergh: "Will you watch for some stories from a young Holger Lundberg who has appeared in The Mercury? He is a man of some promise and I headed him your way" (Turnbull, ed., The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, NY, 1963, p. 214). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934