Death in the Afternoon

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0224602713 / ISBN 13: 9780224602716

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1932

About this Item

[FIRST EDITION] New York and London: Charles Scribnerâ s Sons, 1932. Hardcover, no dust jacket. First Edition/ First Printing (with the Scribner "A" and publisher's colophon on copyright page.) Octavo. Original black cloth, with gilt title and decoration on spine and the authorâ s signature in gilt to front board. (14), 517 pages, with titled tissue guard and color frontispiece by Juan Gris, and 81 black and white photographs by Vandel and Rodero of bulls. Boards with minor shelf-wear, dulling to gilt, spotting on one or two pages and top-edge, no ownership marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (fr case) hardcover Hemingway, Ernest Jan 01, 1932.

Seller Inventory # R3-54GY-9BZ5

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death in the Afternoon
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication Date: 1932
• ISBN 10: 0224602713
• ISBN 13: 9780224602716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Used: Good

About this title

Synopsis

A classic account of bullfighting in Spain, which also contains some of Hemingway's short stories on the same theme.

Review

"Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descrptions of brutality" (Guardian)