ernest hemingway

Book Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, 1926. Octavo. Original black cloth, gold paper title label to upper board and spine printed in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco drop down box. Mild partial browning to the endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, cloth rather marked in lower portions, spine label a little cracked but a very good copy in the torn and professionally repaired dust jacket silked on the verso. Still a very attractive copy. Title-page vignette by Cleonike Damianakes. First edition, first printing, first issue text, in first issue dust jacket, inscribed by Hemingway: "To Cuyler Stevens with all best wishes Ernest Hemingway" and with Stevens's bookplate on the front pastedown. Stevens was in the Princeton class of 1926, and a copy of Winner Take Nothing inscribed to Stevens was in the landmark Goodwin sale. "The Sun Also Rises did not rock the country, but it received a number of hat-in-the-air reviews and it soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation. how much of the novel seems marvelously fresh as when it first appeared. It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and it is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term of apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six" (Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering, pp.70-73). First issue with the misprint "stoppped" for "stopped", p. 181, l. 26. The dust jacket, as called for by Hanneman, incorrectly cites Hemingway's earlier title as In Our Times. Connolly 50; Hanneman A6(a). Bookseller Inventory # 51854

Book Description: Contact Publishing Company, Paris, 1923. Wraps in Jacket. Book Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. 12 Mo. Black lettered blue jacket over beige wraps, enclosed in green cloth slipcase. Hemingway's first book. Although Bill Bird's Three Mountains Press' In Our Time was contracted earlier, Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions book was published and released earlier. Limited to 300 copies only. This copy inscribed by Hemingway on the front endpaper "This book is the property of James Cowan--he is not responsible for it--nor did he buy it. It was presented to him by the author--Ernest Hemingway" Cowan was a fellow reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper, for which Hemingway also worked. Included also is a sheaf of correspondence between former owners and James Cowan attesting to it's history and authenticity. Also included a dealer's catalogue in which this book was listed for sale back in late thirties or forties. This copy wrapped in glassine which is contemporary but not original. Wear and a few tears to the extremities but a particularly fine example of a fragile book. A great Toronto copy of an essential item in the Hemingway canon. Inscribed by the Author. Bookseller Inventory # 20196

Book Description: Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923, 1923. Octavo. Original blue/grey wrappers printed in black. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Contents very lightly toned, backstrip rubbed and with some signs of tape removed from the backstrip but a very good copy. First edition, sole printing, apparently one of 300 copies; the author's first book. Signed presentation copy, inscribed on the second blank leaf, "To Don Marquis from Ernest Hemingway". The recipient was Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878–1937), the author and newspaper columnist best known for the creation of Archy the cockroach, the reincarnation of a free verse poet. Marquis travelled to England and on to Paris in October 1923. The book had been published sometime that summer. Bookseller Inventory # 62758

Book Description: San Francisco de Paula (Cuba) and apparently Madrid, 1953 to 1955., 1955. Large 4to. Altogether 4¼ pp. on 5 pp. With one autogr. envelope. To George Brown, the owner of a gymnasium in Manhattan, Hemingway's personal trainer, boxing coach, and friend. - I: Hemingway's affection for his sporting pal is evident in this revealing and highly personal letter, written shortly before Ernest and Mary left for an African safari: "How are you kid? Mary sends her best. We are find and in very good shape and think of you often. Were out on a trip together on the boat for two weeks and we go to bed every night after it gets dark and have plenty of time to talk and to sleep good [.]". Hemingway then gives news of his sons, and mentions his youngest son ("Gig"), who, in his early twenties, was turning violently hostile to his father: "I am sorry I spoke against Gig since he is a friend of yours and used to be of mine as well as my favorite son. But he changed very strange very fast. As bad as though the devil was managing him. I couldn't ever see him again; not even to go and see him hanged. But if he seems good to you, O.K. I haven't heard from him since last November when he came of age [.]" (Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, May 12, 1953). - II: Written on the eve of the latter's visit to Cuba and while preparations are being made for the film of The Old Man And The Sea: "George you can't have any confidence in any of those characters. They are all tighter than a hogs ass in fly time. That Goldwyn kid was nice as could be when it was a question of seeing us and thus becoming an old pal of old Ernie [ ]" (ibid., August 18, 1955). - III: Written from his sickbed. Preparations were still being made for the film mentioned above, and Hemingway had spent September trying to get actions shots of leaping marlins for the producer Leland Hayward. Apparently, too, Hemingway was making an effort to get Brown involved in getting Spencer Tracey in shape, for he writes: "I am very sorry about [Peter] Viertel [wrote the screenplay] behaving so carelessly. He is a very selfish boy but I think he has a little bit of an excuse in that he was with Zinneman on the script and was expecting you out there. While Zinneman was down here we discussed the whole thing about your getting Spencer in shape and agreed it was absolutely necessary and we spoke about it again on the long distance phone [ ]" (ibid., November 25, 1955; with several autogr. lines in pencil). - IV: In early 1954 Ernest and Mary Hemingway suffered two near-fatal plane crashes in Uganda, and Hemingway's injuries were extensive. According to Carlos Baker, "The crash at Butiaba and the fire at Shimoni had [.] left him no more than a shadow of his former vigor [ ]". "Just got your letter of Jan 14 George forwarded back from Nairobi. Sure glad you liked the first hooks piece with the pictures. We'd only been out 4-5 weeks then and I wasn't really in shape. In 5 months of that stuff got down to under 190 before those crashes. Now no exercise since Jan 23-24th except early necessary damaging exercise (pitching rocks left-handed with a busted back type of exercise). Good thing I was in shape though. All doctors look at you like some kind of freak like Joe Grimm because you are alive. Am tired of being so smashed up. But always remember you and your head. We beat this one I guess but the smashed vertebrae etc is a no good rap [ ]" ([Madrid], May 24, 1954). - I to III: On personal stationery of Finca Vigia; IV: on sheet of hotel stationery ("Palace Hotel, Madrid"). - Partly light-soiled, otherwise in fine condition. Bookseller Inventory # 30219

Book Description: Three Mountains Press, 1924. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Ernest Hemingway on a laid in signature. An attractive copy limited to 170 numbered copies. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy Hemingway First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-6607398682

Book Description: Contact Publishing [1923], 1923. Soft cover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo. Published in an edition of 300 copies. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere, the printer of Joyce's Ulysses and other expatriate publications. A lovely copy whose fragile wrappers show virtually no use. In custom-made cloth slipcase with chemise. Bookseller Inventory # 20968

Book Description: Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1924. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of the author by Henry Strater. One of 170 numbered copies (the entire edition). A lovely copy with minimal offsetting to endpapers from the inevitable glue residue common to this title and with the faintest of wear to the spinal extremities. Rare in such exemplary condition. Housed in a plush-lined, cloth clamshell box. First edition of the author's second book. Bookseller Inventory # 3446

Book Description: Paris Three Mountains Press 1924, 1924. 30pp. First edition. One of 170 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece author portrait by Henry Strater, an American painter and fellow expatriate who became friends with Hemingway in Paris. This is the author’s second book, published in a smaller edition than his first, a pamphlet of which 300 copies were printed. The sixth and final volume of a series of works by important modern writers, edited by Ezra Pound, titled "The Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose." The book contains eighteen terse, untitled chapters, which Edmund Wilson called "dry compressed little vignettes." A book with the same title was published in the US the following year containing fifteen short stories for which the chapters in the present edition served mainly as introductory vignettes. Only two vignettes from this book were titled and used as full stories: "A Very Short Story" and "The Revolutionist." Most reviewers saw an affinity to Gertrude Stein in Hemingway’s spare prose style, and F. Scott Fitzgerald felt "a sort of renewal of excitement at these stories wherein Ernest Hemingway turns a corner into the street." In tan boards, printed in red with a pattern of clippings from newspapers in several languages, and the title in black. Slight wear to extremities, else a very fine copy. Housed in a leather-backed slipcase with chemise, which shows some wear. (Hanneman A2). Bookseller Inventory # 17389

Book Description: Contact Publishing, 1923. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A lovely copy bound in the original blue wraps. The binding is tight, with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates. Overall, a sharp copy of this scarce Hemingway title. We buy Hemingway First Editions. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-4346726889

Book Description: Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924, 1924. First Edition of Hemingway's second book; one of 170 numbered copies. Binder's glue stains on endpapers, as usual; tiny chips at the top and bottom of the spine; slight bowing of the covers; an excellent, very nearly fine copy; in a custom clamshell box. Bookseller Inventory # 16285

Book Description: Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1924. Hardcover. First edition. Binder's glue stains on the endpapers, as usual, tiny chips at the spinal extremities, slight bowing of the covers, and paper torn a bit over rear hinge, an excellent, very nearly fine copy. Hemingway's second book, copy 42 of 170 numbered copies. In a custom quarter morocco clamshell case. Hemingway intended this to be his first book (it's listed on the rear panel of *Three Stories & Ten Poems*), but publication was held up, allowing Robert McAlmon of Contact to publish *Three Stories* first. See this book in 3D on our site. Bookseller Inventory # 55478

Book Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950, 1950. Octavo. Original blue buckram, facsimile signature to upper board and titles to spine gilt. Containing several textual errors which were corrected to the first trade edition. Housed in a quarter black morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. A superb copy. First edition, first printing, one of 25 copies, printed from the uncorrected sheets and specially bound for presentation. With the author's superb signed presentation inscription on the half title page, "To Alfred Rice with all good wishes and affection Ernest Hemingway". Rice was a lawyer based in New York, he specialized in copyright law and handled all of Hemingway's literary, radio, television and motion picture properties. He began representing Hemingway in 1944, often travelling to Cuba to meet with his client. Bookseller Inventory # 38772

Book Description: Paris: Crosby Continental Editions, 1932, 1932. First Continental Edition; large paper-issue of an unspecified and unknown limitation (this is copy #14). Original wrappers and contemporary glassine (both chipped); some foxing; very good in a custom cloth slipcase with chemise. Inscribed to Sylvia Beach by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sylvia, this world wide masterpiece in English (see cover) with love - Ernest Hemingway." The inscription quotes the front cover blurb. An exceptional association; Beach, the publisher of Ulysses and the owner of Shakespeare & Co., was a close friend of the author as well as distributor of his second book, in our time. Bookseller Inventory # 19376

Book Description: New York: Charles Scribners, 1950. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, advance issue. Dark blue cloth with gilt stamping, one of 25 copies bound for presentation. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway three weeks prior to publication: "For Ben Meyer / from his friend / Ernest Hemingway. / Havana 21/8/50". With original letter and envelope, from Mary Hemingway to Ben Meyer, on Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba stationery. Book is lightly bumped to lower corners, else an extremely bright and fine copy. Housed a custom folding leather and cloth case lettered and ruled in gilt. Ben Meyer was a journalist who traveled to Cuba to interview Hemingway about his latest novel, Across the River and Into the Trees. In the article, Meyer quotes Hemingway as being very pleased with his new work, and describes Hemingway’s house (Finca Vigia, Lookout Farm) and his daily activities. Published first in the Kansas City Star on 10 September, 1950, Meyer’s article celebrates the publication of Across the River, a book Hemingway himself stated "is about love and death, happiness and sorrow and the town of Venice. I really fired all the barrels on this one." Meyer stayed in contact with the Hemingways, as evidenced in the letter to him from Mary Hemingway, dated 1958, thanking him for photos he sent to her of her hometown, Bemidji, MN. Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, Bruccoli, 1986. Inscribed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # EH044

Book Description: Contact Publishing Co, Paris, 1923. First Edition. 12mo. (18cm); issued in grayish-blue paper covers printed in black; 64pp. Custom quarter Morocco slipcase and chemise. Evidence of cleaning to wrappers, resulting in some uneven discoloration within and around the typographic elements, but still a tidy, well-preserved copy of Hemingway's scarce first book, published in an edition of only 300 copies. HANNEMAN A1.a. Bookseller Inventory # 16948

Book Description: Scribner, Scribner(s), 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, with the three p's in the word "stoppped" on p. 181. This original sophisticated FIRST ISSUE dustjacket with "In our times" has no chips or tears. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with all the First Issue points. We buy Hemingway First Editions. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-6299511377

Book Description: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A superb copy. This First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has NO restoration, NO paint only minute tissue repairs hardly noticeable. This beautiful dustjacket is seldom seen in this nice condition. The book is in wonderful shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION preserved in folding chemise and custom morocco slipcase for preservation. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-9075319645

Book Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first issue of the first printing, with the misprint ("stoppped") on page 181 line 26, in the first issue dust jacket with the misprint on the front panel ("In Our Times" vs. "In Our Time"). Octavo, original black cloth. A near fine copy with a bookplate to the inside pastedown in a very good first issue dust jacket, which has had professional restoration, mostly in strengthening the paper and with a small bit of paper replacement at the upper front flap fold. The Annette Campbell-White copy brought $120,000 at Sotheby's in 2007. 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 divorcée Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman à 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). Bookseller Inventory # 3023

Book Description: Paris: Contact Publishing, 1923. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, limited to only 300 copies. Original publisher's printed blue wrappers. An attractive, unrestored copy with some toning to the spine, a few minor spots to wrappers, spine slightly chipped, else a very good to near fine copy. Housed in a custom quarter leather case. Bookseller Inventory # EH073

Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Welcome to Ernestoic Books. As our name suggests, Ernest Hemingway is our specialty and our passion. "Ernestoic" was a nickname given to Hemingway by his first wife Elizabeth Hadley and son John. For sale is an unprecedented Ernest Hemingway first edition collection. All 44 of the books in this Ernest Hemingway set are first editions, first printings. There are two books signed by Ernest Hemingway, a signed limited edition of "A Farewell to Arms", and a signed anthology titled "Treasury for the Free World", for which Hemingway wrote the introduction in 1946. The inscription on "Treasury for the Free World" has been authenticated by James Spence Authentication (Certification Number: X85174). There were only 510 copies of the signed limited edition of "A Farewell to Arms", and for this reason it is one of the most sought after Ernest Hemingway collectibles. Other highlights include: Ernest Hemingway's Junior Yearbook, Galley proofs for "The Old Man and the Sea" Time Magazine publication, "Men at War" signed by the famous actress Katherine Hepburn, and original movie scripts for "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls". We have created an impressive 45 page catalog with the descriptions and photographs of the 44 books included in this collection. Please send us an inquiry requesting to view the catalog. Due to the value of this set, the buyer agrees to pay full shipping costs including insurance, with the collection being shipped via the carrier of your choice. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000247

Book Description: Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1924. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, one of only 170 numbered copies, printed on Rives hand-made paper, of Hemingway's second book. With woodcut portrait frontispiece after Henry Strater. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. Tall octavo, original publisher's decorated tan paper boards; custom cloth box. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few spots of rubbing to spine, one corner lightly bumped; boards a little bowed; usual discoloration to endpapers. A very nice copy. Bookseller Inventory # 129

Book Description: Scribner's, New York, 1932. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY in the month of publication on the front free endpaper: "Ernest Hemingway / Cooke, Montana / September 1932". A beautiful copy in outstanding condition. Hemingway spent the summer of 1932 at Lawrence Nordquist's L-Bar-T Ranch (just inside the Wyoming border and about 12 miles from Cooke City, Montana), fishing, hunting, and writing while awaiting the publication ofDeath in the Afternoon on September 23, 1932. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket; custom half-leather box. With color frontispiece by Juan Gris and photographic plates throughout. Book near-fine with a few scuff marks, dust jacket with very minor edgewear and a little soiling to spine. An exceptionally fine copy of a notoriously difficult book to find in good condition, very rare signed. Bookseller Inventory # 1121

Book Description: 1955. No Binding. Book Condition: Fine. ("Much love, Papa" and "Best love again, Papa"), La Finca Vigia, Cuba, 5 separate pages, January 31, 1955. Important letter on book and film matters. In part: "Glad you're working on 'The Sun Also [Rises]'. . .Can always remember Nathan Asch. . .when I let him read the Burquete part in mss. Saying but. . .it isn't a novel. It's just a travel book. That taught me about showing things in Mss. . .Remember all the motion picture business was new to me. . ." Not published in "Selected Letters". Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 605384

Book Description: NY Charles Scribner's Sons 1932, 1932. First edition. With a contemporary presentation inscription, dated the month of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Charles K. Jackson Esq. With the very best wishes of Ernest Hemingway September 1932." Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Juan Gris, titled "The Bullfighter," and numerous photographs of bullfighting scenes. Hemingway was passionate about bullfighting and viewed it as an art form equally as important and inspiring as painting or music. This was his first book-length work of non-fiction, written while he was living in Key West, Florida. Hemingway first became fascinated by bullfighting in the early 1920s, after visiting the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain, and the experience served as inspiration for his novel The Sun Also Rises. Corners of front cover slightly bumped, else very fine in black cloth boards gilt-stamped with a facsimile of the author’s signature to the front cover. In the original unrestored dust wrapper, which has only some slight rubbing to the corners and a tiny tear and a small chip to the top edge of the rear panel. Housed in a tan cloth chemise and a slipcase backed in brown pigskin, gilt-titled to spine. A beautiful copy of a book that is still seen as one of the definitive works on bullfighting. (Hanneman A10.a; Grissom A.10.1.a). Bookseller Inventory # 24753

Book Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926. First Edition. First State, with the word "stopped" spelled incorrectly as "stoppped" on p.181, line 26. Octavo (20cm); smooth black cloth with gold paper labels on spine and front panel, lettered and ruled in black; dustjacket; 259pp. Gold labels a bit dulled, with some creasing and a few scratches (though still perfectly legible); faint dampstain to front panel, a bit frayed at the spine ends, with minute wear to corner tips and bottom edge. Bookplate of capitalist George H. Bissinger on front pastedown, with a tiny stain to the same, else clean throughout; Very Good+. The Second Issue dustjacket is unclipped, with shallow chipping, tears and wear along the edges, and a triangular chip on the lower left corner of the rear panel affecting part of the text; spine is toned, with several old cellotape mends to verso of same; a Very Good presentable example. Hemingway's second novel, and one that became synonymous with the "Lost Generation." HANNEMAN A6.a. CONNOLLY 100. Bookseller Inventory # 17030

Book Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, 1935. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on a black ground, facsimile signature to upper board gilt. With the supplied dust jacket. Housed in a quarter black morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Contents a little browned, spine faded and lightly rolled, boards a little pale as usual. Very good in the rubbed and tanned dust jacket supplied from another copy. Decorations by Edward Shenton. First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Archie and Ada With love from Pappy", and with the ownership signature of the recipient "Macleish" above. The recipients were the poet, editor and librarian Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) and his wife Ada, née Hitchcock. MacLeish was a key figure among the Parisian community of literary expatriates that included such members as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s. By the time of the publication of this title he was editor of Fortune Magazine. Bookseller Inventory # 34745

Book Description: NY Charles Scribner's Sons 1940, 1940. First edition. A presentation copy inscribed by Hemingway on the front endpaper to Irma Wyckoff, "with appreciation and affection." Wyckoff was the personal secretary to Hemingway's long-time editor at Scribner's, the legendary Max Perkins. Hemingway's epic novel of the Spanish Civil War was inspired by his own experiences as a journalist during the conflict. For Whom the Bell Tolls is considered one of the writer's best works, and the novel's protagonist, Robert Jordan, is the fully-realized manifestation of Hemingway's ideal hero -- a man who exhibits grace under pressure. A very fine copy in a bright original pictorial dust wrapper, which shows only the slightest wear to the spine ends and corners, one short, closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, and a small scratch to the front panel near the spine. Housed in a custom-made red cloth box backed in gilt-titled blue morocco. Bookseller Inventory # 25044

Book Description: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1935. hardcover. First Edition. This anthology, featuring one of Hemingway's most enduring short stories ("Fifty Grand"), is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Hemingway to George Brown: "For George, from his pal, Ernie." Brown was Hemingway's dear friend as well as his personal trainer and boxing coach. He served as a pallbearer at Hemingway's funeral. As far as we can determine, he was the only nonrelation on an "Ernie" basis with Hemingway. Although Hemingway regularly inscribed large numbers of his books (many that he did NOT inscribe can be found on ebay), it is quite possible that this is the only inscribed copy of this book. A wonderful and, given the subject of the anthology, appropriate association copy. Near Fine in a specially made clamshell box. Bookseller Inventory # 013205

Book Description: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. An attractive dustjacket that has benefitted from expert restoration done by a master conservator. The end result is a beautiful dustjacket with no chips or tears. This original dustjacket has the $2.00 price present and is seldom seen in this nice of condition. The book is in excellent shape for being over 80 years old. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine lettering. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing marks of bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition with the original first issue dustjacket. We buy Hemingway First Editions. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1926598903