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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
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
1927EH311New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927 First edition first printing with correct weight of 15.5 ounces. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on front free endpaper: "From E. M. Hemingway."; with Ruth Lowry's ownership signature in pencil to front free endpaper "R. W. Lowry" with a flourish that overlaps with Hemingway's signature. One of 7650 first printing copies. Publisher's smooth black cloth with gold paper labels stamped in black orange topstain fore edge untrimmed yellow endpapers printed with silhouette of a bull in a circle; lacking the original dust jacket. Near fine with light toning to spine a touch of wear to right edge of spine label minimal rubbing to labels minor crack between pp. 180 and 181 sturdy binding otherwise small Fred Harvey Book Shop ticket to front pastedown. Overall a tight and attractive association copy. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry. Hanneman A7a. Men Without Women is Hemingway's second collection of short stories comprising ten previously published and four unpublished pieces. Specifically it includes "The Undefeated" "In Another Country" "Hills like White Elephants" "The Killers" "Che ti dice la Patria" "Fifty Grand" "A Simple Enquiry" "Ten Indians" "A Canary for One" "An Alpine Idyll" "A Pursuit Race" "To-Day is Friday" "Banal Story" and "Now I Lay Me." Two of the stories-"The Killers" and "Hills like White Elephants" -are among Hemingway's most revered. Men Without Women was influenced by Hemingway's travels throughout Europe in the 1920s with many stories set in Spain and Italy. True to Hemingway's signature style this early collection delves into themes of World War I bullfighting and boxing. In a New York Times review of the book Percy Hutchinson prophetically writes ".not since Kipling has there arisen a writer of short stories showing Hemingway's promise. His originality his vitality his fidelity his dramatic sense are forces that combine to indicate for the author of The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women a career of remarkable brilliancy." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
192728093New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First American Edition second printing March 1927. A WONDERFUL SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE. 8vo publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with gilt geometric decorations on the upper cover. 214 1 pp. A fine copy beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST BOOK OF STORIES OTHER THAN THE WORK WHICH INCLUDED TEN POEMS. This was the author's first book published in the U.S. only his second published book and the first that was published for the general trade audience. Fewer than 1400 copies of the first issue of the book were published and even less of this second issue which is considered to be more rare than the first. It was influenced as was THREE STORIES AND TEN POEMS 1923 by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein while spokespersons for the "Lost Generation.<br> There is excellent provenance associated with this copy which was inscribed and presented to Major General Milton Foreman who was a hero in the Spanish-American War the Mexican Border Service Campaign and World War I. It is pprobable that Hemingway met him during the First World War.<br> 'In the Spanish-American War he enlisted in the Army as a private in Troop C First Calvary on December 5 1895. He worked his way up the ranks until he was a captain. In the Mexican Border Service he was a colonel commanding the First Calvary Division of the Illinois National Guard <br> Colonel Milton J. Foreman of the Illinois National Guard received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in World War I while serving in France. When his unit came under heavy artillery and machine gun fire he crept through the German gunfire laying out telephone wire so that he could tell his artillery where the enemy had its gun positions. Foreman found the enemy gun positions and directed his artillery to lay down a barrage of shells to destroy them.<br> General Foreman was awarded for bravery the Distinguished Service Cross the Distinguished Service Medal Silver Star Citations French Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order of the Crown. During World War II Foreman was honored when a merchant liberty ship was named the S.S. Foreman.<br> When World War I ended he was discharged and appointed a colonel in the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to brigadier general on June 23 1920 and major general on March 19 1921. Upon Foreman’s retirement in 1931 he was promoted to Lieutenant General.<br> General Foreman was one of the organizers of the American Legion and he was elected chairman of its executive committee at the Paris Caucus at which he represented Illinois. During the Legion's third national convention in 1921 he was designated as a past national commander by resolution.<br> Foreman was born on January 26 1863 in Chicago Illinois. He was educated here and eventually became an attorney being admitted to the bar in 1899. He served as a member of the Chicago City Council from 1899 to 1911. <br> He was very active in politics and civic affairs. Foreman had the confidence of presidents cabinet members senators governors and mayors. He was a bachelor and a collector of rare books. He died on October 18 1935' see Seymour "Sy" Brody Boni and Liveright hardcover
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
1939150074c. 1939-1940. Rare original black and white photograph of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway and his third wife Martha Gellhorn. Black and white vintage gelatin silver print of Hemingway pointing towards the distance with one arm and the other wrapped around Martha Gellhorn. Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway in black ballpoint to the middle left "For Taylor my pal Ernie." Inscribed above by Martha Gellhorn "For Taylor - Love Marty." The recipient was Hemingway’s great friend Taylor “Beartracks†Williams the well-known Sun Valley hunting and fishing guide. Hemingway’s friendship with Williams dated back to their meeting in Idaho in the late 1930s after which Hemingway frequently returned to Ketchum before eventually settling there. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn met in December 1936 and soon began working alongside one another as correspondents traveling to Spain in 1937 to report on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. At the time still married to his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway divorced in 1939 the same year he and Gellhorn first visited Ketchum; they married the following year. During this period Gellhorn filed reports from Spain for Collier’s while Hemingway published For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 a novel partly written in Ketchum and illustrated on its dust jacket with a photograph of him at his typewriter taken there. In 1941 the couple traveled to China on assignment for Collier’s and returned again to Ketchum before their marriage ended in divorce in 1945. In near fine condition with with light creasing to the extremities. Triple matted and framed. The photograph measures 9.375 inches by 9.375 inches. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 16.5 inches. Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961 was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century whose concise prose style and exploration of universal themes reshaped modern literature. Known for his works such as The Old Man and the Sea A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway developed a narrative voice that captured the complexities of human struggle and resilience with stark simplicity. His experiences as a journalist and participant in both World Wars deeply informed his writing lending authenticity to his depictions of courage loss and alienation. While his personal life marked by adventure and tragedy often overshadowed his literary contributions his stylistic innovations and engagement with existential themes solidified his status as a transformative figure in American letters. By pushing the boundaries of narrative form and emphasizing the power of understatement Hemingway left an enduring legacy on both literature and the cultural understanding of the human condition. unknown
19491237151949. HEMINGWAY Ernest. Typed letter twice signed ""Papa"" to Peter Viertel. Finca Vigia Cuba 29 September 1949. Quarto two sheets of Hemingway's ""Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba"" stationery each leaf measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches typed in black ink single-spaced on one side of each leaf for two full pages of typed text heavily annotated in pen by Hemingway. $25000.Extraordinary typed and heavily annotated letter from Hemingway in Cuba to friend and fellow author and screenwriter Peter Viertel in Malibu California a long lively letter discussing his writing progress a proposed trip hunting and shooting pigeons drinking baseball and a new whore in town with over 150 words of additional notes written in the margins and on the verso of the second page in blue ink by Hemingway. Twice signed as 'Papa.'.The letter on Hemingway's Finca Vigia stationery addressed to Peter Viertel in Malibu CA reads in full with Hemingway's manuscript annotations in brackets and italics:Poor John the ex-light weight champion with his bag of feathers. I'll be god-damned. Papa.Dear Peter: Am awfully sorry to be answering your letter of 31 August now. I thought I had done it but have been working so very hard that it got mixed in with other stuff that I put away in the ""Must Be Answered at Once"". That is no damn excuse. Have been jamming like in a six day bike race.It would be wonderful if you and Jige could go across at the same time as we do. We will be leaving on the ILE DE FRANCE from New York on 1 November. Please don't tell this to anyone as I want to get in and out o town quiet. Will be pooped from working on book and I want to see the town anyway without all that crap. Have done over 15000 words snice I got your letter. Been going like I was possessed by the devil and figure with luck to finish this book now in three weeks. Then we don't have to worry about nothing. Please keep security on this too.Don't worry about the Finca being empty. It would have been wonderful to have you guys out here as I think it is a good place to live and to work. But a Hell of a nice girl who works in the Embassy will stay out here while we are gone and that we will not have to worry. I only hate to have it empty when you keep on the big staff of servants who you cannot let go without giving them three months' pay. We plan to be in Europe for some six weeks to two months. Will be in Paris for a little while and then go down to Venice. This is going to be the last year of the great shoot there as the duck marshes are going to be drained for some agrarian reform project. If you wanted to come down there for a little while we could get in a couple of damned good shoots. Fifty to sixty high flying ducks in a day is about what you'd get in a season in the states. They have mallards pintail widgeon teal redheads and lots of unknown ducks; all coming down from behind the Iron Curtain and plenty fat. I think they must fly over the Iron Curtain at night.Everything goes good down here. Mary is up in Chicago checking on her folks who are quite old and she should pay them a visit. Haven't heard from her yet about how they are because she figures that we are at sea. they are ok but her mother too bored with death coming on and too fragile to travel. But we had to put back in after six days out because there are about five tropical disturbances forming and kicking around. In the bad weather we stayed at Puerto Escondido you remember the place where I shot that iguana and I wrote 5000 some words while we were holed up. Have been having awfully good luck with it and it goes as fast as when I wrote THE SUN ALSO RISES in six weeks and the day I wrote THE KILLERS in Madrid one morning when it snowed and a story called TEN INDIANS in the afternoon and then couldn't cool out and wrote TODAY IS FRIDAY in the evening. After that got drunk. The only trouble writing alone here is like pitching with nobody in the stands or making a Hell of a fight to absolutely empty seats. I wonder why this girl capitalizes Hell. Must be early training. Have been pitching one hit and no hit ball and am pitching double headers like Ed Walsh. He was the only man they said who could ever strut while sitting down but he won 40 ball games in one year for a team that never gave him more than one or two runs. I'm going awfully good. Wish the Hell you and Jige were here to read it and tell me whether it's as good as it feels. When you're half a hundred years old you ought to be able to tell pretty well though unless you've gone into your second childhood. Hope this hasn't happened. Would like to live to be a smart and mean old man. Removed. And just lay back and let the bastards lead. Have scrapped about 100000 words. After all the test of whether a book is any good is how much good stuff you can remove from it. This also confidential.John's evening life with his hound sounds very interesting. What happens here is that I wake up around 3 or 4 in the morning and go to work and Blackie wakes up very reluctantly because he certainly loves his sleep and then lies down beside where I am working and keeps his eyes open all the time. He had a terrible nervous crisis when we made him retrieve a couple of pigeons at the club. He doesn't believe in hurting anything nor in anything hurting him. Have got him threw sic it and he retrieved 17 then 22 and yest 40. I killed 23 x 25 from 30 meters. All cats are fine and so are all the dogs. Please give my best to Eddie Rolfe and tell him I am writing him. Have been terribly remiss on letters on account of working so hard. When you finish working you try to get some exercise so as to be able to sleep a little so you can work the next day. I can always work but I know you have to feed the horse and let him rest sometimes.I am shooting good and have been practicing shooting pigeons from 30 meters so as to be able to go up to the big shoot in Kansas City next March if my form justifies it. So far it does but working tires your eyes and your eyes are what you shoot with along with a couple of other things. The entry fee on that shoot is $1000. I have beaten several of the guys who have won it but you have to be in really good form to shoot it as it's 100 birds and that more or less eliminates the luck and separates the characters pretty well. If you guys need any dough for trip or anything let me know because as soon as book is finished I will stink with it. or stench with it. But not for long.I read the bull book that you wrote about but it didn't mean anything to me. Know 30 or more better stories than that about bull fighting that will never write. That may sound conceited and it probably is but who the Hell isn't sometimes Will tell you three stories when we get together that I know as samples.Please give my best love to Jige and the two of you accept Mary's which I know she would send if she were here. There is a big wind today so we are going down and shoot some pigeons. They ought to fly very well. Wish you were here. It is very lonesome. We have a fine new whore in town who has just come in and who really loves the profession. She was cut out for it. But have turned her over to a friend of mine and am sticking it out that's probably not the phrase til Mary gets back. don't know when that will be yet. Had hoped to stay at sea so as to be a good boy. But this weather has bitched that. It is hard being a good boy alone in this town when you are a lonesome character.I had to give in and play the whore and we drank 7 bottles of Roederers Brut '42 and fucked all night until it was daylight both got battle fatigue I guess. Anyway I wrote only 708 words. I speak to whore very slow in English since she wants to learn English like all whores have some project and then translate soft and good in Spanish. There are going to be a lot of complications in Venice and we will have to cover it like Tinker and Johnny Evers. What we need is a third baseman and Hal Clease at 1st. Papa. Maybe we can recall Willie Walton from the American Association to play 3rd. He can't hit. But he can field womens. Fine condition. An extraordinary Hemingway letter. unknown
1925140945392New York: Boni & Liveright Inc 1925. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing and first thus with the inclusion of additional stories preceded by a much shorter Paris edition just 32 pages in length published one year prior; additionally the author's first book to be published in America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding stamped in gilt to upper board and spine. Near Fine with former owner bookplate to front paste down pages lightly tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket slightly darkened and chipped at the edges wear to the spine ends short split started along the bottom edge of the front spine joint and a tear at the top end of the rear flap fold with associated creasing to the rear panel. This first printing was limited to only 1335 copies. Hanneman A3.A. Boni & Liveright, Inc unknown
19267284New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. Hemingway's first novel synonymous with the Lost Generation in which "the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and the pains of love" Connolly p.53. The novel portrays a group of English and American expatriates frequenting the cafés of Paris who travel along the Camino de Santiago to the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona where they watch the running of the bulls. Basis for Henry King's 1957 film adaptation starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner. Uncommon in dustjacket. Grissom A.6.1b. Hanneman 6A; Connolly 100. Second printing one of 1970 copies with the typographical error on p.181 line 26 "stoppped" for "stopped" in the corrected state. Octavo 19.75cm; black cloth with printed gold paper title labels mounted to spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii23-2591pp. Early ownership markings to front endpaper mild softening to spine ends gentle sunning to spine with some trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and some darkening and pinpoint wear to title labels; contents clean; Very Good. In the correct second state dustjacket unclipped priced $2.00 with the typographical error in "In Our Times" in the corrected state along the lower front panel; spine and panels gently sunned and lighty dust-soiled some moderate external wear with a few small nicks and closed tears particularly at base of spine and a few faint scattered stains; still a presentable example unrestored Very Good or better. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1935162<p><em><strong>ERNEST HEMINGWAY</strong></em> <em><strong>Inscribed first edition first printing </strong></em><em><strong>in original first state dust jacket.</strong></em> <em><strong>THE GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA</strong></em> <em><strong>Published in 1935; Scribners' New York.</strong></em> <em><strong>"A" on copyright page.</strong></em> <em><strong>Original price of "$2.75" still on front inner flap of dust jacket.</strong></em> <em><strong>CONDITION: Book is in very good plus condition: no problems other than a lightly sunned </strong></em><em><strong>spine; gold and black print still vibrant. Green cloth covers show some lightening along cloth </strong></em><em><strong>edges. Dust jacket front and back panels are bright clean with only minor scratching and </strong></em><em><strong>edge wear; jacket spine show sunning matching that of the book's spine cloth with printing </strong></em><em><strong>still highly readable. </strong></em> <strong><em>Ed Hanes to who this book is inscribed by Hemingway was an</em></strong> <strong><em>acquaintance Hemingway had met in Key West Florida.</em></strong> <em><strong> Book has no writing in it other than Ernest Hemingway's inscription to Ed Hanes.</strong></em> <em><strong>EDWARD SHENTON drew decorations </strong></em><em><strong>and illustrations the same artist who </strong></em><em><strong>did the</strong></em> <em><strong>decorations and illustrations for </strong></em><em><strong>F. Scott Fitzgerald's TENDER IS THE NIGHT.</strong></em> <em><strong>COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL</strong></em></p> Scribners hardcover
19355255New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Book with spine toned and a faint dampstain to front board. Front inner hinge now professionally repaired. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned a large crease running down the front panel and some chipping and wear at the spine ends and extremities. Inscribed by the author: "For Daisy G. Roe Wishing her all good luck from her friend Ernest Hemingway. Key West March 18 1936." The recipient Daisey G. Roe was a Florida neighbor who had recently married up-and-coming politician and future Jacksonville Florida mayor Caulie F. Whitehead. Authentic signed Hemingway material is becoming scarce on the market. Housed in a custom green quarter-leather slipcase with chemise.<br /> <br /> After publishing Winner Take Nothing in 1933 "Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa. It is the most literary hunting trip on record" New York Times. Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can if truly presented compete with a work of the imagination." It stands as one of his most memorable books set in the continent and along with The Snows of Kilimanjaro helped to establish his reputation as a safari-hunter and outdoorsman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
192774614New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. First edition first printing weighing 15.5 ounces. publisher's black cloth with gold labels in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. Tiny ding to the front cover near the joint; else a fine copy in a bright fresh dust jacket with very slight tanning to the spine. Much nicer than usually seen. . 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, hardcover
1929140944651New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition limited issue. Copy #398 of a limited 510 signed by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page. Publisher's pale green paper covered boards over vellum spine black leather title label to spine stamped in gilt in publisher's leaf-patterned slip case with red title label to front panel with matching number. Near Fine with slight toning to binding light soiling and wear to spine several small nicks to the bottom edge. In Near Fine publisher's original slipcase with light rubbing and light toning. A beautiful copy of the only signed limited edition ever issued of Hemingway's work. Hanneman 8B. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
97639New York Boni & Liveright 1925. . First edition 8vo; slight age-toning bookplate to upper pastedown else fine; publisher's black cloth gilt geometric design to upper cover printed dust-jacket the upper panel bisected into boxes containing appraisals of the author's literary skills and the rear one with reviews of this title from literary luminaries such as Ford Madox Ford John Dos Passos and Waldo Frank some age-darkening more so to spine chipped on corners and spine-ends with professional restoration to spine fold of upper panel otherwise in a remarkably good state; 1-15 16-214 215 blank pp.<br /> The collection of short stories and vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut and brought him fame.<br /><br />When In Our Time was published it was praised by Ford Madox Ford John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein as one of the most promising American writers of that period. This collection contains several early Hemingway classics including the famous Nick Adams stories Indian Camp The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife The Three Day Blow and The Battler. It introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean tough prose enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests through the simplest of statements a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. <br /><br />Now recognised as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature In Our Time serves as a key to Hemingway's later works. <br /><br />Banned in Germany from 1933 to 1945 by the ruling National Socialist party.<br /> New York, Boni & Liveright, 1925. hardcover
192628091New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First edition First Issue with nine titles listed on the rear panel of the dustjacket. A superb advance copy of the first printing with an original photograph of Hemingway tipped in and the printed publisher's biographical statement affixed announcing that " "The Sun Also Rises" will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons in the Fall" 8vo original black cloth lettered in red on the spine and upper cover and in the original dustjacket. 8 143 pp. A very fine especially well preserved copy of Hemingway's first novel clean and solid hinges firm the jacket with a bit of mellowing caused by time and with a small chip to the tip of the jacket's spine panel. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE VERY RARE ADVANCE COPY WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH AND PUBLISHER'S TYPED STATEMENT AFFIXED ANNOUNCING THE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION OF "THE SUN ALSO RISES" AND WITH FORD MADDOX FORD'S LAUDATORY COMMENT ON HEMINGWAY. THIS IS THE AUTHOR'S FIRST LONG WORK TO BE PUBLISHED. Although it was written after THE SUN ALSO RISES --"to cool out" Hemingway explained-- THE TORRENTS OF SPRING was published prior to his more famous novel. It was written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter. "It seems to have started as a knockabout parody of Sherwood Anderson's mechanized folkware" quoted in THE HEMINGWAY READER. Written in ten days it is a satirical treatment of pretentious writers. Hemingway received a mixed reaction to the novella that was sharply critical of other authors. His wife Hadley believed the characterization of Anderson was "nasty" while F. Scott Fitzgerald considered the novella to be a masterpiece. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1929140945742New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Signed limited first edition. First edition limited issue. Copy #167 of a limited 510 signed by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page. x 355 pp. Bound in publisher's pale green paper covered boards over vellum spine black leather title label to spine stamped in gilt housed in publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase with red title label to front panel with matching number. Near Fine with toning to boards slight darkening to spine vellum residue from removed bookplate on paste down in Near Fine slipcase lightly edge-worn. An attractive copy of the only signed limited edition ever issued of Hemingway's work. Hanneman 8B. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
19611669Rochester Minnesota 1961. Very good. A one-page autographed letter signed to Hemingway's youngest son Gregory which reads in full: "6-292 St. Mary's Hospital Rochester Minnesota 1961 Dear Gig Dr. Howard Rome told me this morning that you had called him in regard to the $350.00 you need on completing your tuition and I am enclosing herewith. Thank you for your letters and best luck in everything. Am doing well here and will not go into details but send this off to you with the minimum delay possible. The Cuban situation is quite complicated but appreciate your offer of help. Yours Always Papa." In a postscript he adds: "Mary is quite well and I will be talking with her tomorrow night. Have been swimming three out of the last four days and it feels good again. There are some really fine doctors here and it is a pleasure about a privilege to know them. EH." A significant letter as it is written from the famous Mayo Clinic hospital where he was being treated via electroshock therapy for depression. Hemingway stayed at the hospital from November 1960 to January 1961 and then again from April through June. The letter comes only 33 days before he would take his own life in Ketchum Idaho immediately after his release. The "Cuba Situation" he mentions in the letter is of course the Cuban Missile Crisis and Hemingway was unsure if he would be able to return to his home there Finca Vigia not least to save a number of manuscripts. One almost senses his resignation in the letter but the postscript suggests he felt the need to revise his haste and add an upbeat more descriptive note for Gig. Gregory Hemingway was in medical school at the time and became a doctor. For many years he had a strained relationship with his father in part because of instances of cross-dressing as early as 12 years of age. Much later Gregory came out publicly as trans and went by Gloria. She thus was clearly caught between Hemingway's hyper masculine world and her own inclinations. She is buried beside Ernest and her brother Jack in Ketchum. An all around poignant letter from a pivotal moment. The letter is in very good condition folded twice vertically and once horizontally for mailing lightly wrinkled and with one short split to the lower right edge at a fold and a touch of soiling to that same corner. It is impeccably mounted and framed in black wood behind UV-resistance glass by a Ketchum Idaho shop. unknown
19252405002Boni & Liveright 1925. first. hardcover. fine/fine. First edition with 1925 on title and copyright page. In professionally restored dust jacket that is in fine condition. Book fine slight foxing small sticker to bottom of rear free end paper. Comes with publisher's ad pamphlet and the first magazine appearance of In Our Time in Little Review Exiles' Number Spring 1923. Housed in custom-made fold-out case. More photos upon request. Boni & Liveright unknown
1929014379New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful Fine copy of this desirable book in an attractive new slipcase. Original vellum spine and green boards with vellum tips. Copy #48 of 510 SIGNED by the author Hemingway's only signed and limited edition. An absolutely gorgeous copy the boards and the vellum both sparkling fresh with the black leather label completely intact and bright. Housed in a new and attractive slipcase reproducing the original and on which the original limitation label has been mounted. Laid in are receipts for purchase of this book from 1932 private purchase for five dollars and 1984 Goodspeed's. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
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
266226/10/55. <blockquote><p>“When you are dead you are dead for a long time.""</p><p> </p><p>He advises a young woman friend “Please be careful about aircraft…It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly.â€</p><p> </p><p>Hemingway will send her an animal skin from his African safari to decorate her new house""</p><p> </p><p>Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here.""</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-26883 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204131000/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-1-1600x198.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""198"" /></p></blockquote><p>After covering the Spanish Civil War in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca VigÃa “Lookout Farm†an unpretentious estate outside Havana Cuba. In 1940 he published “For Whom the Bell Tolls†which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in “A Farewell to Arms†he focused on its pointlessness and in “For Whom the Bell Tolls†on the comradeship it creates. During World War II he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public.</p><p>Soon after he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for “The Old Man and the Sea†a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who after an extended struggle hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine and the 50000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days.</p><p>In 1955 back in Cuba Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors’ advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife’s’ efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea†starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months suffering from hepatitis and nephritis.</p><p>Hemingway's relationship with faith was complicated. Raised protestant he converted to catholicism but was largely religiously indifferent. He had seen so much death and tragedy. At this point evidently he had long since abandoned the faith of his youth.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-26884 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130953/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-2-1600x219.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""219"" /></p><p>Mary Lou Firle a second year student at CCNY was in Cuba in early 1955. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had “Farewell to Arms.†She picked up the phone and called Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added “I have a friend at Fordham University.†Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up.</p><p>After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. She had told him of her family background that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan and Hemingway called her the “Black Kraut.†The reason for the nickname Hemingway said was that he called his good friend Marlene Dietrich the famous German actress “Krautâ€; so Mary Lou who was very tan would be the “Black Kraut.†Later that day Hemingway’s driver drove her back to Havana. The two exchanged letters in July 1955. She wrote him again in October and received this response.</p><p>In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea†starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and he was grateful to have the weather interrupt the filming. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to ""A Farewell to Arms"" numerous times and that is possibly the writing he refers to.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-26885 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130947/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-3-1600x201.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""201"" /></p><p><strong>Typed letter signed</strong> with typewriter corrections and a pencil notation by Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba October 6 1955 to Mary Lou on his fear of flying and unbelief in the afterlife signed EH with the original envelope sending it. He also jokes about the equity that hurricanes are named invariably after women.</p><p><em>“Thank you for writing and I wish to congratulate your mother and your new step father if they would like that. I hope they are happy. With a good daughter like you they should be.</em></p><p><em>“Am very happy you took your vacation up north as down here it was rugged with the effects of the different hurricanes. Hope we are not going to have Za-Za. I knew a girl named Janet once but she never killed any people in Barbados nor Tampico. It is easy to get tired of this naming tropical storms after girls and I think it is in bad taste especially when you have been through bad tropical storms.</em></p><p><em>“Please be careful about aircraft. If I ever see you will tell you how and why. It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly. No second thoughts will help you and when you are dead you are dead for a long time. Maybe we are only alive when we are dead but I have not believed that for a long time. Excuse me if I am pedantic about aircraft but everybody is pedantic about something.</em></p><p><em>“I am very proud of your new house and that you made it yourself I hope without hitting yourself too many times with any blunt instrument and I will send you the skin of a good African beast when I receive them. Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here. The old hides have been ruined by the humidity of the many hurricanes they have gone through and I would rather send you a fresh newly tanned one.</em></p><p><em>“In return will you see Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown and tell them that I have not written because it has been a tough year in many ways but that we are winning good and I have all my stuff; worse even that Mr. Podres and am on page 613 and do not have to do any more photography on the picture until April 15 and not think about it until March first. Have been working so hard and so long I must take some kind of vacation but not until this wicked month of October for hurricanes is over. We are not yet out of the woods but I know the woods ok.</em></p><p><em>“Take care of yourself Black Kraut and please deliver this message to Mr. Bob and please do not put in the television but use any dough to buy more good records instead and I will send you the hide of a good beat that will be good for the joint. Please let me hear and if you keep contact with the Bob Browns I would be happy because while I have never met him I know he is a good man.""</em> Signed by Hemingway with initials.</p><p>A fascinating letter showing Hemingway’s feelings about life after death the importance of life love but of but fear of flying and interest in hunting game in Africa. It has been in the recipient’s family’s possession since it was received and we acquired it direct from them. Mary Lou had promised Hemingway that she would not sell the letter during her lifetime and kept her promise. She told Morris it would be ok to sell it after she passed.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
