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192511652IN OUR TIME Boni & Liveright 1925 first edition spine lettering a bit dulled else a vg/near fine copy. The authors first book published in the U.S. 1/1335 copies. As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you. B & L unknown
70186Wellesley Hills: Sans Souci Press 1978. First Edition. ONE OF ONLY THREE COPIES this being copy Number 2 inscribed by the publisher to the recipient with a long and very personal presentation inscription noting the placement of the three copies and the fact that the book would not be published and bound for still a month after this first issue copy which is specially bound for presentation. Signed and inscribed again on the colophon page with presentation to the recipient and the numbering of the copy as No. 2 of 3. 8vo publisher's special binding of rough sepia cloth the spine with a white label lettered in black with end-leaves wrapper and slipcase in off-white and the title-page printed in black. Typesetting by Thomas Todd the binding by Robert Burlen designed and printed by William and Raquel Freguson for William Young's San Souci Press June 1978. 138 pp. A pristine copy as mint both the book and protective box in excellent condition ONE OF ONLY THREE COPIES OF THE EARLIEST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. ONE COPY FOR THE PUBLISHER THIS COPY FOR PRESENTATION BY THE PUBLISHER TO A CLOSE FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE AND ONE COPY FOR SALE AT THE HIGHEST PRICE. What led to the eventual publication of this book is a story of significant interest and it is outlined in the long introduction by William and Dorothy Young. The typescript of the play was dated: Chicago 1920-1921 and would therefore qualify as Hemingway's first book unpublished. Later research proved that at least Acts One and Two were completed and that the play had been copyrighted on June 4 1921 thus proving that "what was apparently Hemingway's first book lay resting in some dusty corner of the copyright office in Washington."<br> 'The carbon typescript of the book was authenticated by Professor Carlos Baker the definitive Hemingway scholar. The only fragment remaining of the original manuscript descended from Leicester Hemingway to the publisher. In the Quinlan papers at Yale is a letter from Hemingway to Grace Quinlan dated November 16 1920 stating in substance that he is writing a fifty-fifty collaboration with Musselman. Professor Baker also made note of a second letter from Musselman to Hemingway which states among other matters that they must get to work over the weekend to begin the thrird act of the play. The entire matter is discussed in the introduction to the book. At one time the book was banned in California but remains as Hemingway's first authored book.' W. Young "Banned in California"<br> This is the first printing from the original typescript and is thus the first time the book apparently Hemingway's first has been available to the public. The handsome typesetting is by Thomas Todd and the binding by Robert Burlen. Design and printing were carried out by William and Raquel Ferguson. Sans Souci Press hardcover
193511416JNew York: Scribner 1935. First Edition. Usual fading of green cloth otherwise a near fine copy in a slightly used dust jacket the typical sunning at spine and a few tiny nicks and tears. Scribner hardcover books
1925SKU1035743New York: Boni and Liveright 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American Printing 1925. Preceded by the shorter Paris edition. Black cloth boards have only minor wear with the spine title mostly faded away front design is bright. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Bookplate removed from the front free endpaper. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia S.C. Boni and Liveright hardcover books
193511416JNew York: Scribner 1935. First Edition. Usual fading of green cloth otherwise a near fine copy in a slightly used dust jacket the typical sunning at spine and a few tiny nicks and tears. Scribner hardcover
19527885New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1952. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Some fading and a dampstain to spine minor edgewear endpapers a bit toned and a contemporary bookplate to upper free endpaper. In the first issue jacket with panel text in brown and no Nobel Prize announcement. Jacket price clipped with clip affecting one letter small contemporary price sticker to inside of front flap some edgewear and slight chip to back panel. <br /> <br /> The final work of fiction published in the author's lifetime winner of the Pulitzer Prize and cited by the Nobel Prize Committee The Old Man and the Sea cemented Hemingway's legacy as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The story follows the tribulations of an aging and suddenly unlucky fisherman Santiago as he tries to catch a gigantic marlin in the Straits of Florida. Ultimately Santiago's story is an existential metaphor through which Hemingway explored in a seemingly simple way the dignity and biblical nature of an old man's trials at the end of life. It was a massive success. The book was originally published in full in an issue of Life Magazine which subsequently sold 5 million copies in less than a week. "No outbursts of spite or false theatricalism impede the smooth rush of its narrative. Within the sharp restrictions imposed by the very nature of his story Mr. Hemingway has written with sure skill. Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else" contemporary New York Times review. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1938BB1363Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company 1938. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies of which this is number 116. Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing soldiers advancing beneath the flag of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica or F. A. I one of the pro-Republican belligerents in the Spanish Civil War that after an estimated 50 to 100 copies were bound so reported by the publisher in a letter to Hanneman the endpapers were changed to plain. Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell with introduction by Jasper Wood. Small slim 8vo: 60pp with 7 full-page original charcoal drawings. Publisher's tan linen cloth front cover lettered in black and decorated in orange spine lettered in black printed throughout in black on tan Linweave paper absent the original glassine jacket fresh one added. A superlative copy covers and spine almost pristine with barest hint of toning; tightly bound text fresh and bright; superb illustrations. Hanneman A15a. Text of the narration for the sound track that Hemingway contributed to the 1938 film of the same name about the Spanish Civil War which broke out in 1936 with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17 triggered by events in Madrid. Within days Spain was divided in two: a "Republican" or "Loyalist" Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals and eventually under the leadership of General Francisco Franco. "Late in 1936 while Hemingway was working on To Have and Have Not the North American Newspaper Alliance offered to hire him to report on the civil war being fought in Spain. The literary fruits of this undertaking in addition to the news stories Hemingway produced to fulfill his contract were the script for the narration of a pro-Republic documentary film The Spanish Earth; a relatively unsuccessful play The Fifth Column published with his collected stories as The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories; a handful of short stories about wartime Spain and his most successful novel in more than a decade For Whom the Bell Tolls." Literary Encyclopedia The Spanish Earth was published by a precocious Cleveland high-school student named Jasper Wood who was so moved on seeing the film that he convinced Hemingway to allow publication of the text. Fewer than a hundred copies were bound this first issue is a notable Hemingway rarity before Wood made the change to plain tan end papers the second issue. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. The J. B. Savage Company unknown
1929155515New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Handsomely bound copy First edition first printing distinguished by the lack of the legal disclaimer which appeared on page x in the second and third printings. Based on Hemingway's experiences as an ambulance driver at the Italian Front during the First World War it was written at the peak of his success and met with wide acclaim. The critic James Aswell offered particularly lavish praise: "I have finished A Farewell to Arms and am still a little breathless as people often are after a major event in their lives. If before I die I have three more literary experiences as sharp and exciting and terrible as the one I have just been through I shall know it has been a good world" cited in Bloom p. 5. Octavo 178 x 123 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco spine lettered and decorated in gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt inner dentelles gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges. Couple of minor spots an excellent copy in a fine binding. Grissom A.8.1.a; Hanneman 8a. Harold Bloom ed. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms 2009. hardcover
1932183551New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. The first appearance of a hallmark theory of literary criticism First edition of this prolifically illustrated contemplation of bullfighting handsomely bound by the Chelsea Bindery. In this work Hemingway introduced his famous iceberg analogy of writing marking his first published statement on the theory of omission crucial to the understanding of his fiction: "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader if the writer is writing truly enough will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water" p. 192. Hemingway spectated his first bullfight in 1923 at the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona igniting a passion he revisited for the rest of his life and inspiring the events of The Sun Also Rises 1926. Explaining the important literary and aesthetic significance that bullfighting held in his heart Hemingway writes "the only place where you could see life and death i.e. violent death now that the wars were over was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write commencing with the simplest things and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death" p. 2. The book affectionately called the bible of bullfighting made Hemingway "the leading exponent of the corrida outside the Spanish-speaking world" Meyers p. 117. Octavo 224 x 157 mm. Colour frontispiece after a Cubist painting by Juan Gris with captioned tissue guard bull vignette on title page and 81 half-tone photographic illustrations with facing descriptions. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt marbled endpapers roll to turn-ins gilt edges. A fine copy. Grissom A.10.1.a; Hanneman A10a. Jeffrey Meyers Hemingway: A Biography 1985. hardcover
1940155220New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. A handsomely bound copy First edition. Published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bell Tolls is loosely based on Hemingway's experiences reporting on the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The 1943 film adaptation starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman was nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. Octavo 201 x 136 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt roll to turn-ins gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges. A fine copy. hardcover
1940190922New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First edition. Published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War this novel is informed by Hemingway's experiences reporting on the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Many of the characters are based on real people some semi-fictionalized others drawn directly from life. The 1943 film adaptation directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman was nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Actress. This is the first printing with a second issue jacket indicated by Scribner's "A" on the copyright page and "Photograph by Arnold" on the rear panel. Octavo. Original pale brown cloth spine lettered in black on red ground front cover with facsimile signature in black top edge brown the rest uncut. With dust jacket. Spine rubbed and lightly toned endpapers browned; jacket unclipped a little loss to head of spine extremities chipped and creased: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1924123600Boston: Small Maynard and Company 1924. First edition first printing. This anthology of popular fiction from 1923 includes Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man" which first appeared in his first published work Three Stories and Ten Poems published earlier in the same year. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt single rule in blind to front cover. With dust jacket. Spine ends slightly creased shallow mark across spine text block lightly toned. An excellent copy in the slightly toned jacket loss to joint ends 29 mm closed tear to base of front panel 25 mm closed tear to base of rear panel small tear to middle of rear joint. Grissom A1. hardcover
192641545New York: Charles Scribner's 1926. Becoming a novelist First edition first printing of the author's first novel a ruthless satire on Sherwood Anderson and his clique of American writers that Hemingway deemed pretentious. After completing the draft Hemingway informed Ezra Pound that it was "probably unprintable but funny as hell. It's the first really adult thing I have done. Jesus Christ it is funny" cited in Mellow p. 318. As Hemingway suspected the work was turned down by his publisher Horace Liveright on the grounds that its characterization of Anderson who Liveright also published went too far. This rejection prompted Hemingway to break his contract with Boni and Liveright and join Scribner's which would remain his publisher for the rest of his life. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco spine lettered and framed in gilt covers ruled in gilt inner dentelles gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. A fine copy. Hanneman 4a. James R. Mellow Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences 1992. unknown
19521649New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1952. First Edition First Printing Grissom 281; Hanneman 63 64. Publisher's Blind-Stamped Light Blue Cloth Stamped Silver Foil Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket Unclipped $3.00. Book is likely bumped and rubbed to corners tail and crown. Minor dust soiling and moderate sunning to extremities. A bit of spotting to boards and sunning to spine. Text block is lightly toned. Impression of previous owner's name to flyleaf erased but still visible; text is otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Correct first state dust jacket with Lee Samuels photographer attribution to rear panel has several small chips to tail and crown and spots of wear to jacket folds. Spine panel moderately sunned. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. viii 1 9-140pp. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1940182681New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. Light chipping at spine crown. Hinges lightly toned. 1st issue without photographer's name on rear panel. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1940196908New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing along spine crown/heel. Lightly sunned front panel. 1st issue without photographer's name on rear panel. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1926112233445566781<p>The First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape London in 1926. 8vo. blue publisher's cloth lettered in white to the spine with Cape device to the foot; together in the rare printed wrapper unclipped '6s. net' to the front flap featuring lettering and decorative borders in blue; The BOOK is the second state blue cloth binding and is a Very Good example a little bumped and rubbed at edges with some minor fading to the spine ; light overall toning internally but clean overall with a couple of corner creases to a few pages; The WRAPPER toned to the folds and especially to the spine; rubbed and creased along folds with some small losses to the corners and spine. A couple of light splash marks to the upper panel; completely unrestored. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Hemingway's second published work and his first book to be published in Great Britain. Part of the 'Second Story' series. An early collection of 15 short stories with the prose bridge 'chapter' divisions and an 'L' Envoi'. Hemingway's writing career began while as a reporter for The Kansas City Star where he spent six months after graduating from High School. When the First World War broke out he enlisted in the Red Cross and later served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. Hemingway struggled to readjust to life after the war. One of the stories included here 'Big Two-Hearted River' was based on a camping trip he took with some High-School friends and is semi-autobiographical describing the protagonist's attempts to readjust to life after the experiences of war. After marrying Hemingway moved to Paris and began to move within a circle of writers who referred to themselves as 'the lost generation' - Gertrude Stein Ezra Pound and James Joyce amongst other artists such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He began to write travel pieces and had compiled a collection of short stories before the suitcase containing his manuscripts was lost by his wife at a train station at the Gare de Lyon. All that remained were two stories and Hemingway had to start again from scratch. 'in our time' was first produced in Paris in 1924 and in this early iteration the stories it contained were more like vignettes which had initially appeared in Ezra Pound's 'The Little Review' the previous year. Many were on the subject of war bullfighting grief and loss and of the small run of 300 copies only 170 survived due to the poor printing process. After it was printed he continued to write short stories and in 1925 after combining the vignettes with the new stories 'In Our Time' was reprinted in America. It now contained fourteen short stories with the vignettes interwoven as 'interchapters' many introducing his Nick Adams character closely modeled on himself for the first time. The book is now considered to be one of Hemingway's masterpieces and certainly established him as a writer of great promise. Until very recently this example has been housed in a private collection. A nice copy of the Noble Laureate author's second published work and very elusive indeed with the wrapper. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> Jonathan Cape, London hardcover
1952193598New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1952. Man is not made for defeat First edition in the first issue dust jacket. Hemingway's final work of fiction the book won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and was cited for his receipt of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The first issue dust jacket omits mention of these awards and has flaps printed in brown. Octavo. Text block bound upside down. Original light blue calico-grain cloth spine lettered in silver author's signature stamped to front cover in blind. With dust jacket designed by Adriana Ivancich. Light toning and rubbing to cloth slight lean to spine; jacket unclipped spine and head of panels toned rubbing and a few nicks: a very good copy in like jacket the binding fault creating a bibliographic oddity. Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman 24a. hardcover
19260104840Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. first. hardcover. very good. First edition 1926 on title and copyright page. Book very good Previous owner's name and date on half-title page attached to rear free end paper is a typed poem by Malcolm Cowley. Laid-in is a cutout from the back of a dust jacket for this book with Hemingway on it and also laid in is the photo of a famous matador after whom the matador in this book was partially modeled. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
19260104840Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. first. hardcover. very good. First edition 1926 on title and copyright page. Book very good Previous owner's name and date on half-title page attached to rear free end paper is a typed poem by Malcolm Cowley. Laid-in is a cutout from the back of a dust jacket for this book with Hemingway on it and also laid in is the photo of a famous matador after whom the matador in this book was partially modeled. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1927888P17DNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. Hardback. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". None. A smart early edition of one of Ernest Hemingway's best known novels a brilliant leather bound example of the great American novel. An early printing published the year following the first with 'stopped' spelt correctly to page 181 line 26 'down-staris' to page 169 line 34 and 'BOOK THREE' to page 235 rather than 'Book III'. A popular work this went through three printings in 1926 and an additional four printings in 1927 two each in January and February and one printing in March. The printings were stated to the spine of the dust wrapper not seen in this smartly rebound copy. Smartly rebound in a half morocco binding with the original cloth boards restored.'The Sun Also Rises' is one of the best known novels of Ernest Hemingway. The tale follows a group of American and British expatriates as they travel from Paris to Spain in the 1920s.This enduringly popular novel remains in print today. Rebound in a half morocco binding with the original cloth boards restored. Externally very smart. Label to the front board is very lightly rubbed with one very small chip. A couple of small marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned as is usual to see and clean. Near Fine Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
19296981New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition First Printing First Issue. First edition first printing first issue. First state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" on the front flap. Measures approximately 7.5" x 5.25" with 355 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in very good minus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the original cloth boards. Chipping to the cloth at the spine ends. Previous owner's signature in pen on the front endpaper. Interior pages are clean and well preserved. Dust jacket is in good condition. Moderate chipping and creasing most noticeable at the spine ends. Original $2.50 price is present on the front flap. <br /> <br /> Early in 1918 Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. During his time abroad Hemingway had two experiences that affected him profoundly and that would later inspire one of his most celebrated novels A Farewell to Arms.<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 #P3-27. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
19265194New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926. First Edition First Printing. First edition first printing with matching 1926 years on the title and copyright page. Married to a scarce original third printing dust jacket that lists the publication of A Farewell to Arms 1929. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 143 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in very good condition. Minor staining to the top edge of the textblock. Minor scattered foxing throughout. The original dust jacket is in very good or better condition. Minor chipping to the spine ends. Small stain at the middle of spine. Original $1.50 price present on the front flap. <br /> <br /> "A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race" Hemingway used the work as a spoof of the world of writers. It is Hemingway's first long work and was written as a parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter.<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 #N10-61. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
193244397Milwaukee:: The Casanova Press 1932. First edition; No. 131 of 525 copies. original printed wrappers in publisher's slipcase. Bookplate to pastedown; else just about fine in a very nice slipcase with minute signs of wear. 8vo. Including "Ultimately" A Poem by Ernest Hemingway. The Casanova Press, unknown
192954283New York: Scribner's Sons 1929. First edition first printing without disclaimer. In dust jacket with correct price and "Katherine" on front flap as called for. One of Hemingway's most influential works. Very good to near fine with covers showing only light shelf wear and with vertical crease in spine label but labels otherwise bright and fine; in good to very good dust jacket with old tape repair visible at spine ends and corners. Scribner's Sons unknown books