Hemingway ErnestABAA
Hemingway ErnestABAA
The Green Hills of Africa
1935106950Scribner's 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition with typical moderate fading of spine and edges of cloth in a very good first issue dust jacket. Scribner's 1935. First edition Scribner's A on copyright page. 295pp. with Shenton decorations. 8vo. Original green cloth; gilt lettering on front board; black decorative strips on spine with gilt lettering. In first issue dust jacket with wider green section on back panel with original price of $2.75 still on front flap. First edition. Hanneman 13. In discussing the author's challenges in writing this work of non-fiction Carlos Baker says "The Green Hills of Africa rises above the status of a 'noble experiment' and becomes in its own right a work of art." Hemingway/ The Writer as Artist p.167. Hemingway's second book of nonfiction an account of a month-long hunting trip to Africa which he wrote "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." Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Scribner's hardcover books
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