The Hero Of The Code in Time Magazine (Hemingway Memorial Issue)

Hemingway, Ernest, Subject

Published by Time, Inc., NY, 1961

About this Item

Entire issue, July 14, 1961, in original colorful, double full-page folding Boris Artzybasheff wraps, light general wear, discrete mailing fold at cover nearly straightened, no mailing label. Article spans 3-pages, printed in triple columns, illustrated with several photographs, plus a short piece by the publisher at front which presents a brief timeline of Time Magazine's history with the American author and adventurer. From the opening, "All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true storyteller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway, the storyteller who wrote those lines, was brushing his teeth. It had been, his wife later recalled, a calm, good-natured dinner, and she was sitting in her bedroom in their house in Ketchum, Idaho, when an Italian song she had not thought of for years came into her mind Tutti Mi Chiamano Bionda (Everybody Tells Me I'm Blonde). Mary Hemingway walked across the hall to her husband's room to sing it for him. 'I said, 'I have a present for you.' He listened to me, and he finished cleaning his teeth to join me in the last line.' Next morning, shortly after 7 a. m., a pajama-clad Hemingway went downstairs and from the gun rack took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers." Very scarce.

Seller Inventory # 024096

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hero Of The Code in Time Magazine (Hemingway Memorial Issue)
• Publisher: Time, Inc., NY
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Boris Artzybasheff
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ernest Hemingway