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19273940New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. A bright Near Fine copy of the book with the top-stain a bit dulled otherwise very presentable. In a Very Good dust jacket with spine panel toned minor chips and tears at the spine ends and corners and scuffing at the bottom of the front panel and on the flap obscuring the "N" in Sons and the price on the front flap. With all first issue points including unbroken font for page number 3 no printing on the bands of the dust jacket.<br/><br/>The 14 stories in this early collection "are as clear and crisp and perfectly shaped as icicles as sharp as splinters of glass. It is impossible to read them without realizing that seldom if ever before has a writer been able to cut so deeply into life" Time. Included are "The Killers" "Ten Indians" "Today is Friday" and "Hills Like White Elephants.". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1933193890New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. Light chipping at spine crown. Chip at both top panel corners. Scribner seal and "A" present on CP. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1933168509New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Inner dust jacket edges reinforced by previous owner. Few open tears along panel edges. Scribner seal and "A" present on CP. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1929140941327New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with bronze title label printed in black to spine and upper board. Very Good with light staining and rubbing to cloth pages toned tape ghosts to rear endsheet. In a Near Fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with Katherine Barclay which is lightly toned and lightly worn at the extremities and with a small tape repair to the blindside made at the top of the front spine joint. A lovely copy. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1940WRCLIT50601New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons 1940. Cloth. Spine somewhat rubbed and darkened a bit tanned and a trifle shaken but a sound copy. Later printing of the first edition without the 'A'. Inscribed by Hemingway on the half- title: "To Max Showalter with all good wishes Ernest Hemingway." Accompanied by two other items: a another copy first printing bearing Max Showalter's ownership signature on the free endsheet endsheets darkened at gutters else very good in defective but largely complete dust jacket; and b Mary Hemingway's HOW IT WAS New York: Knopf 1976 first edition near fine in very good dust jacket inscribed by Mary Hemingway to Showalter in Los Angeles in the year of publication. Showalter a.k.a. Casey Adams enjoyed a long career in film and television and was a feature player at 20th Century Fox favored by Darryl Zanuck who required Showalter's assumption of the 'Adams' stage name. Though he was associated with a long list of films and television programs from the 1940s-1980s we find no record of his credited association with a film adaptation of Hemingway's work. He did however originate the role of Ward Cleaver the Beaver's old man which later passed to Hugh Beaumont. Chas. Scribner's Sons hardcover books
14416American author. Signed book: For Whom the Bell Tolls. Later printing. NY: Scribner's 1955. Hardcover 8-3/8" x 6-3/4" inches 471 pages. Signed and inscribed on front free end paper "To Ben Strauss with best regards and all good luck Ernest Hemingway." For Whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingway's semi-autobiographical novel of young American soldier in the Spanish Civil War who is assigned to blow up a bridge. The story which Hemingway devised from his own observations and experiences as a war reporter in the Spanish Civil War graphically displays the conflict between the desire to live and the desire to fulfill one's duty through the brutality of war. Critically acclaimed and financially successful For Whom the Bell Tolls is considered to be among Hemingway's greatest works. No dustjacket. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Exterior cloth has faded mostly on the spine faint dampstain to upper 2 inches and small ink stains to rear cover. Some offsetting from bookplate to front free end paper where Hemingway's inscription is located. Otherwise the interior is in very good condition with a nice bold inscription and signature. unknown books
1929140941327New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition first printing first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with bronze title label printed in black to spine and upper board. Very Good with light staining and rubbing to cloth pages toned tape ghosts to rear endsheet. In a Near Fine price-clipped first issue dust jacket with Katherine Barclay which is lightly toned and lightly worn at the extremities and with a small tape repair to the blindside made at the top of the front spine joint. A lovely copy. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
19606058<p><strong>First or second copy. Unique typescript of the earlier version of the translation.</strong></p><p>The extracts from the novel '<em>For Whom the Bell Tolls'</em> translated into Russian were scheduled to be published in '<em>Znamya'</em>magazine in 1941. However the outbreak of war in June of that year disrupted these plans. Simultaneously Hemingway faced criticism for the novel and was accused of slander by the Spanish communists. It is believed that Josef Stalin personally read the complete translation of the novel and commented 'Interesting. Printing is forbidden'.<br />This original draft and pre-proofreading typescript encompassing the first 18 chapters with the last chapter lacking an ending served as the basis for the two-volume edition published in 1962 without any censorship cuts. This edition was specifically intended for Soviet authorities as part of a special series marking the first Russian translation of the novel.<br />The series of such books was not intended for distribution through bookstores or libraries. These books primarily translations were exclusively sent out based on a special list with the expectation that each copy would be returned after reading.<br />In this series the edition of '<em>For Whom the Bell Tolls'</em> was released without any information about the translator. However this typescript the earlier version of that translation provides the confirmation that the translation was prepared by two prominent female translators Evgeniia Kalashnikova 1906-1976 and Nataliia Volzhina 1903-1981 albeit with a misprint on the title page as M. Volzhina.<br />This typescript is more than just a samizdat underground press copy. This being the first version of the translation is further confirmed when comparing it to Hemingway's original text to first and second Russian editions of the translation.<br />Hemingway became a victim of postwar xenophobia and was only rediscovered by Soviet readers in the mid-1960s and early 1970s. '<em>For Whom the Bell Tolls'</em> was finally published in 1968 as the third volume of <em>Hemingway's 'Collected Works'</em> with certain censorship cuts. It was the third version of this translation. The complete uncensored version of the translation was not available until 2015.</p> hardcover
1926028359NY: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S & SONS. A BEAUTIFUL UNRESTORED DJCLOSED TEAR BOOK LABELS FRESH AND BRIGHT. JUST THE SLIGHTEST SCUFFING TO THE CLOTHBOARDS KEEPS THIS COPY OUT OF THE MINT RANGE. . VG. Hardcover. 7TH PRINTING. 1926. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S & SONS hardcover
194015445FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Scribners 1940 first edition but a later printing without the publishers designation for such a tight vg copy in fine facsimilie dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. Scribners / Scribner's unknown
30041New York: Charles Scribners Sons. 1952. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with a facsimile of Hemingway's signature stamped in blind to the upper board and silver titles to the spine in the Adriana Ivancich illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the corners the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the upper right corner of the front pastedown partially hidden by the dustwrapper flap are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the exceptionally clean and bright first printing dustwrapper that is lightly rubbed and creased to the extremities with a very short closed tear at the top of the upper spine fold secured with a small piece of tape to the underside. Not price-clipped $3.00 to the upper front flap. A very attractive example. The author's last major work of fiction published in his lifetime. The novella was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. New York: Charles Scribners Sons. 1952 hardcover
1952HEMINGWA015125Charles Scribner's Sons New York. 1952. First edition with the the publishers' seal and ''A'' on the copyright page. Octavo. 140 pages.Neat ownership inscription on front pastedown under the dustwrapper flap. Some faintly discernible fading to the covers. Head and tail of spine faintly scuffed. Corners of covers very slightly bumped. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper with some light of rubbing to the edges. The dustwrapper is first issue: flaps printed in brown with no mention of the Pulitzer or Nobel Prize. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. unknown
1926001775New York: Scribners 1926. 1st Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition of Hemingway's first novel following two short story collections. Small 8vo. 143 pp. Black dark green per Hanneman cloth with red titles to the front board and The bottom corners have two tiny areas of wear else near fine. The sharp jacket is price-intact - $1.50 present. The jacket may have had a small amount of repair but it is very hard to discern - presents as fine. One of 1250 copies in the first printing.An excellent copy of an early Hemingway work. Ref: Hanneman. <br/> <br/> Scribners hardcover
1956019956Envelope with inscription "Good luck to you both always Ernest Hemingway 27/2/56" . Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. 1956. unknown
19537466London: The Reprint Society 1953. First Illustrated Edition Signed. First illustrated edition. Signed by the author Ernest Hemingway on the half title page. Measuring approximately 8.5" x 6" with 117 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in very good plus condition. Minor surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Front board is slightly bowed upwards. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. The original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Chipping and tearing to the spine ends and corners.<br /> <br /> "The Old Man and the Sea" was the final novel written and published during Hemingway's lifetime. Written in 1951 it was first published in Life magazine in the fall of 1952. The first edition was published in 1952 with a print run of 50000 copies. "The Old Man and the Sea" is the story of an aging fisherman who sets off to end his unlucky fishing streak. What ensues is an epic battle between the fisherman and a gigantic Marlin. It is a story of strength and struggle respect and fear contemplation and acceptance. This novella won Ernest Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. It is a literary masterpiece written by one of America's greatest writers.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #P10-51. The Reprint Society unknown
1929140941461New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with bronze title label printed in black to spine and upper board. Very Good with light lean to binding. Covers lightly worn spine and pages toned former owner name to front paste down rear inner hinge partially exposed. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with Katherine Barclay which is edge-worn toned and with a crease down the spine panel. A lovely copy. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
19554789New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Hemingway to his very close friend and fishing buddy Charles Thompson: "For Lorine and Charles with love from Ernest. Sept. 20 1957." Near fine copy in sun-tanned dust jacket chipped at the head. A choice association copy of one of Hemingway's most enduring works. <br/><br/>The decade or so that Hemingway lived in Key West were among his most productive years as a writer. He wrote in the mornings fished in the afternoons and often spent his evenings drinking with friends. One of those friends many say his best friend was Charles Thompson the owner of a marine hardware store and a couple of other businesses. Charles went on an African safari with Ernest and the character "Old Karl" in ''The Green Hills of Africa'' is based on him. There is also a lot of Charles Thompson in the character Harry Morgan in the novel "To Have and Have Not." Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1930256004New York: Scribner 1930. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. With an Introduction by Edmund Wilson. 8vo black cloth old label d.w. New York: Scribner 1930. First revised edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Unusually nice copy. The blue dust wrapper is lightly tanned on the spine otherwise no chips or other flaws.<br/><br/> Scribner unknown books
1926121743New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition first printing of Hemingway's first major novel with with the misprint "stoppped" on page 181 line 26. Octavo original black cloth with bronze paper labels to the spine and front panel. Accompanied by a typed letter signed by American editor Maxwell Perkins on Charles Scribner's Sons letterhead. Best remembered for discovering authors F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Thomas Wolfe Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and James Jones Maxwell Perkins met Hemingway through F. Scott Fitzgerald after facilitating the publication of Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise. It was Perkins who fought for the publication of Hemingway's first major novel The Sun Also Rises in 1926 in the wake of objections to Hemingway's profanity raised by traditionalists in the firm. The commercial success of Hemingway's next novel in 1929 A Farewell to Arms which topped the best-seller list silenced colleagues' questions about Perkins' editorial judgment. In very good condition with rubbing and wear to the paper spine label. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926 and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Though it initially received mixed reviews it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" Meyers 1985. The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcee Lady Brett Ashley but the novel is a roman a clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation" considered to have been decadent dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I was resilient and strong. Naturally themes of love death renewal in nature and the nature of masculinity are heavily investigated. For example the characters engage in bull-fighting which is presented as an idealized drama: The matador faces death and in so doing creates a moment of existential nothingness broken when he vanquishes the possibility of death by killing the bull Stoltzfus 2005. The Sun Also Rises is seen as an iconic modernist novel for future generations Mellow 1992 although it has been emphasized that Hemingway was not philosophically a modernist Reynolds 1990. "The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation" David Laskin. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19292405121Scribner's Magazine 1929. first. softcover. fine. First appearance of story in 6 volumes of Scribner's Magazine. All 6 magazines in fine to very good condition. Housed in custom-made fold-out case. Scribner's Magazine unknown
1929140941461New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with bronze title label printed in black to spine and upper board. Very Good with light lean to binding. Covers lightly worn spine and pages toned former owner name to front paste down rear inner hinge partially exposed. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with Katherine Barclay which is edge-worn toned and with a crease down the spine panel. A lovely copy. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
16-3566Paris: Gallimard 1937. 12mo. Original wraps one of 40 numbered copies on Alfa Navarre. 240pp.Les vertes collines d'Afrique. Traduit de l'anglais par J. Delpech. P. NRF "Du monde entier" 1937 in-12 br. dos lég. bruni fines piqûres au dernier feuillet. Edit. orig. 1/55 ex. de tête num. sur Alfa Navarre. Paris: Gallimard, 1937 paperback
195812866Paris:: Club des Libraires de France 1958. First French illustrated edition; one of 4000 copies. publisher's cloth with applied color illustration. Some soiling to cloth; light fading to spine; some light wear to the extremities of the spine and corners; just a very good copy. . Oblong 8vo. Inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper to Ghislaine de Boysson in 1959. De Boysson was Lawrence Durrell's third wife. Club des Libraires de France, hardcover
194969870San Francisco de Paula Cuba 27 July 1949. Light horizontal creases where folded; otherwise fine. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. On Finca Vigia letterhead Hemingways mentions and gives news of many of their mutual friends. About 200 words. unknown
19236009aContact Publishing 1923 This a very attractive bound photocopy of an original 1923 Paris first edition of Three Stories & Ten Poems. This was Ernest Hemingways first published book. This is a nice complete copy bound in a dark green hardbound covers with the title in gold on spine. "Copyright 1923 by the Author". Dedicated to his first wife Hadley. 58 pp. Unmarked. Very Good. Extremely Rare and valuable copy. One of only 300 original first editions. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contact Publishing hardcover
