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1924125303Printed at the Three Mountains Press and for sale at Shakespeare & Company: Paris 1924. First edition of Hemingway's second published work one of of 170 numbered copies printed on Rives hand-made paper this is number 90. Quarto original tan printed <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">boards</span> with black lettering and publisher's device printed over a collage of red-lettered facsimile newspaper items <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">woodcut</span> <span class="glossaryQtip qTip">frontispiece</span> portrait of Hemingway from a portrait by Henry Strater all edges uncut. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase with splitting to the chemise. One of Hemingway's rarest books second only to Three Stories and Ten Poems both because of the limited number of copies printed and its fragile nature. A superior example. Ezra Pound had arranged with William Bird the owner of The Three Mountains Press to publish a series of six volumes by contemporary writers under the collective title 'The Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose'. Contributors included Pound himself Ford Maddox Ford William Carlos Williams and Ernest Hemingway. For his contribution Hemingway selected the 6 sketches that had already been published in The Little Review in 1924 to which he added a further 12. The resulting publication was titled in our time an ironic reference to the twelfth line of the Episcopalian Evening Prayer: "Give peace in our time O Lord". In our time is certainly one of Hemingway's rarest both because of the limited number of copies printed and its fragile nature. A series of short vignettes the work is a powerful statement on war and includes chapters written during Hemingway's recent visits to Spain and the fictional account of the death of Maera a renowned matador. In his review in The Dial October 1924 Edmund Wilson asserted "I am inclined to think that this little book has more artistic dignity than any other book that has been written by an American about the period of the war" and called it "a harrowing record of the barbarities of the period in which we live". Ezra Pound edited in our time and it was later expanded into the American edition of 1925 in which these 18 chapters appeared interspersed among other classic Hemingway short stories. Paris hardcover books
19262003012New York: Scribners 1926. Near fine./Very good. A near fine first edition first issue three p's on stoppped in a very good first edition dust jacket with all first issue points In our Timesand no restoration. With a paper inscribed and signed by Hemingway laid in. Some tape on inside of dj. Two bookplates attached to front paste-down. Rear gutter of book cracked open. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Scribners unknown books
19402004004Scribner's 1940. first galley proofs. very good. Pre-publication galley proofs first printing the earliest state the text terminating at galley page 141 concluding with a line of dashes between two Os to signify the end of the novel. Printed on rectos only on two different paper stocks. A little chipping and minor soiling overall very good. Housed in a custom-made fold-out slipcase. Scribner's books
19271510024Scribners 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket inscribed by the author to a judge on the front free endpaper which has been reattached. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with a leather spine. Scribners hardcover books
19291510023Scribners 1929. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good early printing 1929 ninth printing inscribed by Ernest Hemingway on the front free endpaper. In a very good original dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Scribners hardcover books
1952121346New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons 1952. First edition early printing of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo original blue cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For <span class="il">Karen</span> from her friend Ernest Hemingway." The recipient was the daughter of Waldo Peirce one of Hemingway's oldest friends. After WWI had come to an end Peirce befriended Hemingway in Europe and the two traveled together to various continental locations in particular Spain. In 1937 Peirce painted a portrait of Hemingway which appeared on the cover of the October 18th issue of Time Magazine. Peirce was once called "the Ernest Hemingway of American painters." To that he replied "They'll never call Ernest Hemingway the Waldo Peirce of American writers." Laid in is a letter of provenance signed by and in Karen Pierce's hand dated Sept. 6 2007 "When I was 10 years <span class="il">old</span> Ernest Hemingway came to our house in Tucson Arizona to visit my father Waldo Peirce. He signed a book for everyone in the family and I got The <span class="il">Old</span> <span class="il">Man</span> and the <span class="il">Sea</span>. <span class="il">Karen</span> Peirce." Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket with light rubbing newspaper clipping to the half-title page. Photograph of Hemingway by Lee Samuels. An exceptional example. Signed examples of this work are uncommon presentation copies even more so particularly with such noted provenance. Upon its publication in 1952 by Charles Scribner's Sons The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. The novel reinvigorated Hemingway's literary reputation. It initiated a reexamination of his entire body of work. The novel was received with such alacrity that it restored many readers' confidence in Hemingway's capability as an author. Indeed the publisher even wrote on an early dust jacket calling the novel a "new classic" and it was compared by many critics to such revered works as William Faulkner's "The Bear" and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Charles Scribner's & Sons hardcover books
192699358New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition of Hemingway's first novel one of 1250 printed. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his nephews "To Cliff and Dudley with much affection Ernest." The recipients were Clifford and Dudley Bragdon the nephews of Hadley Richardson Hemingway's first wife. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some of the usual wear to the extremities. With the signature of the recipient "Clifford R. Bragdon Paris 1927." Housed in a custom clamshell and chemise case. Association copies of Hemingway's first novel seldom appear in the marketplace. Ernest Hemingway's first novel and third published book was preceded by Three Stories and Ten Poems and the collection of stories In Our Time. "Hemingway was planning a carefully engineered campaign for breaking his contract with Boni and Liveright and maneuvering to place his novel The Sun Also Rises with Scribner's. The vehicle was. the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring which was clearly calculated to cause problems with his publisher since it was a deliberate parody of Sherwood Anderson Boni and Liveright's best-selling author. Boni and Liveright had the option on his next three books one of which had to be a novel. If however they turned down the book that Hemingway submitted next he was free of his obligations to the publisher and could go elsewhere." Hemingway wrote Ezra Pound that he "had written 'a funny book'. It was a satire on America he claimed 'Probably unprintable but funny as hell. Wrote it to destroy Sherwood Anderson and various others. It's first really adult thing have done. Jesus Christ it is funny. It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson Gertrude Stein Sinclair Lewis Willa Cather Hergo Joseph Hergesheimer and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastards. I don't see how Sherwood will ever be able to write again" Mellow Hemingway. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
193514450JNew York: Scribner 1935. First Edition First Printing. Signed presentation copy to Ernest Hemingway’s friend newspaper columnist Walter Winchell. Inscribed: “To Walter Winchell from his friend and admirer. Ernest Hemingway.†Very good with the usual fading to the green cloth but less so than commonly found in a bright very good plus first issue dust jacket. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box. Hemingway thought highly of Winchell in their early days and wrote that “Winchell is the greatest newspaperman that ever lived†and remarked that Winchell was the “only reporter who could last three rounds with the Zeitgeist.†Walter Winchell was at one time one of the most powerful individuals in America with his newspaper column syndicated in hundreds of newspapers and his role as radio commentator helping him to reach millions of people. In the 1940s and 1950s Winchell’s obssession with anti-communist conspiracies and his support of the evil Senator Joseph McCarthy eventually lost him his following. Scribner hardcover books
192511121JNew York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First Edition. Printed in the tiny edition of only 1335 copies this is Ernest Hemingway’s rarest trade edition in dust jacket. The Paris edition contained only the short chapter vignettes the New York edition additionally collects for the first time the short stories by which this collection is now well-known including “Big Two Hearted River - Parts 1 & 2†“My Old Man†“Soldier’s Home†“The Battler†etc. Small sliver of fading at head of spine else a fine bright copy with gilt-stamping on the spine bright and fresh most copies have a darkened or flaked spine in a dust jacket with some expert restoration of a few small chips in the unprinted plain paper area none of the printing has been effected and some strengthening at folds. An attractive copy. Boni & Liveright unknown books
192518123ENew York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First Edition. Printed in the tiny edition of only 1335 copies this is Ernest Hemingway’s rarest trade edition in dust jacket. The Paris edition contained only the short chapter vignettes the New York edition additionally collects for the first time the short stories by which this collection is now well-known including “Big Two Hearted River - Parts 1 & 2†“My Old Man†“Soldier’s Home†“The Battler†etc. Small sliver of fading at head of spine else a fine bright copy with gilt-stamping on the spine bright and fresh most copies have a darkened or flaked spine in a dust jacket with some expert restoration of a few small chips in the unprinted plain paper area none of the printing has been effected and some strengthening at folds. An attractive copy. Boni & Liveright unknown books
193712825An extraordinary one-of-a-kind historic collectible beautifully framed.<br />This is the ORIGINAL Western Union Cablegrama dated and sent from Havana Cuba on April 8 1937 to General Franco Salamanca Spain. It is sent from Elicio Arguelles head of Franco's Nationalist Committee in Cuba to Franco in Salamanca. The message translates into English as follows:<br />THE SPANISH NATIONALIST COMMITTEE SENDS TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AS MEDIATION FOR THOSE RECONQUERING SPANISH SOIL<br />What makes this unique piece truly extraordinary is that beneath the printed message written in ink in his instantly recognizable hand is a three-line notation:<br />"Salamanca" / Spain 1937 / Earnest Hemingway<br />The background is this: The sender Arguelles is the father of Hemingway's close friend of the same name Elicio Arguelles Jr. the fisherman in the famous photograph of himself standing beside Hemingway with the 900-pound Marlin they caught. As was customary at the time the sender also received a copy of the telegram. His copy went to the son who in turn gave it to Hemingway to sign.<br />This is an absolutely one-of-a-kind collectible of considerable historical significance. A major collectible.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Western Union books
195222661ENew York: Scribners 1952. Later printing. Signed presentation copy from Ernest Hemingway to actress Ann Sothern. Inscribed: “To Ann Sothern Wishing her all good things always. From her friend Ernest Hemingway Sun Valley 1958â€. With Ms. Sothern’s bookplate. Near fine copy with a hint of handling and very faint darkening to the cloth at the spine and outer edges in a near fine dust jacket with some minor dust soiling and a few tiny nicks. With the publisher’s original wraparound band indicating that the book was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. After Ann Sothern retired from her acting career she moved to Ketchum Idaho which is a small town adjacent to Hemingway’s home in Sun Valley. Ms. Sothern is best known for her roles in A Letter to Three Wives 1949 with Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell and The Whales of August 1987 with Bette Davis and Lillian Gish - her last film for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and for her television work on Private Secretary 1953 - 1957 and The Ann Sothern Show 1958 - 1961 - both of which lead to Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Enclosed in a custom blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-stamping to the spine. Scribners hardcover books
19262004105Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. first. hardcover. very good/very good. First edition first issue book with "stoppped" on page 181. In a second state dust jacket "In Our Time" at bottom of front of dj. Title and copyright page have same publishing date 1926. Book very good stains on front and rear pastedowns and end papers. Dust jacket very good with some repair done to dust jacket visible on inside. Housed in a custom-made foldout case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
195416066JNew York: Look Magazine 1954. First Edition and Only Printing. One of the rarest of all Ernest Hemingway A items which was unknown for many years until revealed in C. Edgar Grissom’s A Descriptive Bibliography of Ernest Hemingway published in 2011 and is listed as item A.26. This oversize booklet 10 1/2 wide by 13 inches tall separately prints the article and photography for the January 1954 issue of Look Magazine for which Hemingway wrote an original piece. The article is 3500 hundred words plus photographs for which Hemingway wrote the captions. This special printing was the brainchild of the magazine’s publisher Vernon C. Myers who presented it to a small select number of people calling it a literary first “you may want to add to your library.†A little light soiling and use to the printed wrappers. Enclosed in a custom cloth folding case. A Hemingway first edition lacking in almost all Hemingway collections. Look Magazine hardcover books
1950180323005New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition first printing presentation issue. Error "Papadopohi" on p. 21 uncorrected as are two errors on pp. 24 and 80. One of only 25 "advance" copies printed from uncorrected sheets and specially bound for presentation as noted by David A. Randall head of Scribner's rare book department at the time on paste down before his signature. xii 308 pp. Publisher's dark blue buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase. A rarity and perennial "stopper" for Hemingway collectors in excellent condition. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19292003019New York: Scribners 1929. Signed limited edition. hardcover in slipcase. Fine. A fine signed limited edition number 244 of 510 numbered copies in near fine original slipcase and custom-made collector's leather clamshell case. The signed limited edition one of 510 numbered copies signed by Hemingway. Fine in a near fine original slipcase and housed in a stunning leather clamshell with the colophon page reproduced in leather on the front of the case. Scribners unknown books
1948124152New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1948. Early printing of Hemingway's masterwork on bullfighting. Octavo original black cloth spine lettered in gilt frontispiece by Juan Gris illustrated. Association copy inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper "For Nita with regards and affection Ernest Hemingway Mr. Papa. Finca Vigia - SF. de Paula 22/7/49." The recipient Jua<span class="match">nita</span> "Nita" Jensen was Hemingway's secretary at his home in the San Francisco de Paula Ward of Havana Finca Vigia from 1949 to 1952. While working as a secretary at the American embassy in Havana Nita received government clearance to moonlight as a part-time secretary for Hemingway typing the majority of his letters between 1949 and 1952. In 1952 she married diplomatic officer Walter Houk at Finca Vigia. In addition to hosting the wedding Hemingway gave away the bride and cosigned the necessary legal paperwork and the couple became frequent visitors of the finca often accompanying Hemingway on fishing trips aboard the Pilar and visits to his favorite local bar the Floridita. Very good in a very good dust jacket with chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. An exceptional association. Published in 1932 Death in the Afternoon is Hemingway's masterwork on the magnificence of the art of bull-fighting. John Dos Passos praised the book as "an absolute model for how that sort of thing ought to be done" and a contemporary review in The New York Herald Tribune described it as "full of the vigor and forthrightness of the author's personality his humor his strong opinions--and language. In short it is the essence of Hemingway" Mellow 415. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19401907108Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. first. hardcover. fine/very good. SIGNED first edition with 1940 on title and copyright page and Scribner's "A". Book fine. Dust jacket very good couple of tears and some wear. Housed in a custom-made fold-out case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1929140938711New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition. One of 510 numbered copies signed by Ernest Hemingway this being #60. Bound in publisher's white parchment over pale green paper-covered boards; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with light foxing and darkening to vellum with small tear at the foot of the spine. Light uneven sunning to boards and patch of wear to top edge of upper board. A beautiful copy. Hanneman 8B. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
195610633London: Jonathan Cape 1956. Eighth Impression. Cloth. Very good/very good. Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway inscribed by the author and Spanish bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez. Octavo 358pp 1. Maroon cloth title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "eighth impression 1956" on copyright page with the first edition published in 1932. Some foxing to outer edge of text block faint toning to endpapers not affecting text or illustrations. Bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper. In publisher's later state dust jacket retail price on both flaps light wear to edges some toning to verso but bright and vibrant colors. Housed in custom black leather clamshell lined in red linen title in gilt on spine. Signed by Ordóñez and dated 1959. Signed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "To Col. and Mrs. Wm. C. Burry best luck always Ernest Hemingway." Antonio Ordóñez the famous Spanish bullfighter was a lifelong friend of Ernest Hemingway whom he called Father Ernesto. Hemingway wrote an account of Ordóñez's fight with matador Luis Miguel Dominguin called The Dangerous Summer. The father of Antonio Ordóñez Cayetano Ordóñez was nicknamed Niño de la Palma and served as the inspiration for Pedro Romero in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Provenance: RR Auction of Boston September 2020. Jonathan Cape unknown books
194015667JNew York: Scribners 1940. Second printing. Signed presentation copy from Ernest Hemingway to his close childhood friend Bill Smith. Inscribed in black fountain pen ink using Hemingway’s boyhood nickname: “To Bill with much affection Wemedgeâ€. Bill and his sister Katy later married to John Dos Passos summered near the Hemingway home on Horton Bay Michigan. Ernest and Bill knew each other for many years as children before becoming close friends: “It took an old pal of mine Carl Edgar†Smith recalled “and most of the summer to put Ernest and me on really good terms.†In less than a few weeks the three were out at the Point fishing from the dock day and night. Smith in short order acquired a full quota of the nicknames that Hemingway invented for friends.while Hemingway for inexplicable reasons preferred to be called Wemedge.†See James R. Mellow - Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences pages 37-38 Hemingway who entertained fantasies that Katy Smith was secretly attracted to him would later create a fictional erotic relationship between the two in the “Nick Adams†stories. Adams’s nickname in the largely autobiographical series is Wemedge. Laid into the book is an original small photograph of Hemingway and Bill Smith fishing off the Key West in the 1930s which was reproduced in the 1992 Mellow biography of Hemingway. Front hinge expertly repaired else a very good copy with a little general cloth in a bright dust jacket with with a short 1 inch scratch on the spine light wear and two short tears to the rear panel. An exceptional Hemingway association copy enclosed in a morocco leather and cloth clamshell box. Scribners hardcover books
193095977Chicago: The Walden Book Shop 1930. Rare letter excerpt boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Published by the Walden Book Shop in 1930 the introduction begins "The following notes are excerpts from a Hemingway letter in answer to questions concerning editions and numbers of copies." It goes on to provide a long italicized quote from the letter in which Hemingway describes the printings of his early books from Three Stories and Ten Poems through the forthcoming Men Without Women 1927. The quote reads in part: ".The books have been Three Stories and Ten Poems Contact Press 1953-350 copies out of print In Our Times Three Mountains Press 1924 150 I think.They claim to be issuing a new edition. Then Scribners published The Torrents of Spring in the spring of 1926 in an unrestrained edition and The Sun Also Rises came out in the same year with I believe an attempt made to print and sell as many as possible.I own one copy of Three Stories and Ten Poems and would be very happy if it became valuable in order that I might have something to leave to my children." Signed by Hemingway in he lower right corner of the pamphlet. In fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Hemingway. The entire piece measures 26 inches by 17 inches. An exceptional example. American journalist and novelist Ernest Hemingway's legacy to American literature lies in his economical and understated writing style which he termed the "iceberg theory" and writers who came after him either attempted to emulate or avoid. After his reputation was established with the publication of The Sun Also Rises Hemingway essentially became the spokesperson for the post-World War I generation. His influence on 20th century fiction is unparalleled and his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway published seven novels throughout his career and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. The Walden Book Shop unknown books
192716028ENew York: Scribners 1927. First Edition First Issue. Former ownership inscription dated 1927. Very good plus copy with some minor wear to the cloth at the foreedges and at the spine not affecting the lettering in a very good dust jacket with some slight dust soiling a 1 1/2†tear to the bottom edge of the front panel near the spine fold and a few very small nick and tiny tears. Scribners hardcover books
1926119154New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition of Hemingway's first novel one of 1250 printed. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Ernest Hemingway's first novel and third published book was preceded by Three Stories and Ten Poems and the collection of stories In Our Time. "Hemingway was planning a carefully engineered campaign for breaking his contract with Boni and Liveright and maneuvering to place his novel The Sun Also Rises with Scribner's. The vehicle was. the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring which was clearly calculated to cause problems with his publisher since it was a deliberate parody of Sherwood Anderson Boni and Liveright's best-selling author. Boni and Liveright had the option on his next three books one of which had to be a novel. If however they turned down the book that Hemingway submitted next he was free of his obligations to the publisher and could go elsewhere." Hemingway wrote Ezra Pound that he "had written 'a funny book'. It was a satire on America he claimed 'Probably unprintable but funny as hell. Wrote it to destroy Sherwood Anderson and various others. It's first really adult thing have done. Jesus Christ it is funny. It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson Gertrude Stein Sinclair Lewis Willa Cather Hergo Joseph Hergesheimer and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastards. I don't see how Sherwood will ever be able to write again" Mellow Hemingway. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1926112442New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition of Hemingway's first novel one of 1250 printed. Octavo original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the crown. An exceptional example. Ernest Hemingway's first novel and third published book was preceded by Three Stories and Ten Poems and the collection of stories In Our Time. "Hemingway was planning a carefully engineered campaign for breaking his contract with Boni and Liveright and maneuvering to place his novel The Sun Also Rises with Scribner's. The vehicle was. the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring which was clearly calculated to cause problems with his publisher since it was a deliberate parody of Sherwood Anderson Boni and Liveright's best-selling author. Boni and Liveright had the option on his next three books one of which had to be a novel. If however they turned down the book that Hemingway submitted next he was free of his obligations to the publisher and could go elsewhere." Hemingway wrote Ezra Pound that he "had written 'a funny book'. It was a satire on America he claimed 'Probably unprintable but funny as hell. Wrote it to destroy Sherwood Anderson and various others. It's first really adult thing have done. Jesus Christ it is funny. It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson Gertrude Stein Sinclair Lewis Willa Cather Hergo Joseph Hergesheimer and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastards. I don't see how Sherwood will ever be able to write again" Mellow Hemingway. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
