The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922 [Limited Edition]

Hemingway, Ernest; Spanier, Sandra; Trogdon, Robert W. (Editors0

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011

About this Item

Stated at copyright page: "First edition 2011, Numbered Leatherbound Edition. '392' of 500." Rich reddish-brown textured leather boards, black impressed cover and spine titles, fine. Cover features beautifully impressed facsimile signature of an early Hemingway. Red satin ribbon marker. Pages fine. Sixteen pages of thirty-one charming and historic photo plates from Hemingway as boy with family and friends, adolescence in summery Michigan, to young man in the first world war. Rare fine leather limited edition and a heavy, substantial volume. Frontispiece plate of Walloon Lake stationary with message to papa from a ten-year-old concerning his affair with a sleeping porcupine in the woodshed: "Ernest Hemingway to Clarence Hemingway, postmarked 23 July [1909] from Walloon Lake, Michigan. Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library." Each summer the family traveled to Windemere on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey. Contents: "List of Plates; List of Maps; Editor's Introduction the the Edition; Note on the Text; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Foreword to this Volume; Introduction to this Volume; Chronology; Maps; The Letters 1907-1922: Roster of Correspondents; Calendar of Letters; Index of Recipients; and, a General Index; Maps: Oak Park, Illinois; Hemingway's Northern Michigan; Hemingway's Italy, WWI; Hemingway's Paris through 1922; and, Hemingway's Europe through 1922." The written works of Ernest Hemingway are full of battle-hardened tales of bloodshed and machismo. But these personal letters show the growing boy becoming a young man in the natural world of the early twentieth century. Audiences have largely been presented with Hemingway as a tortured figure, a hard drinker and womanizer. These tender letters, however, show a humored and accessible side, full of inside jokes and references, and doodles. A rare insight into the upbringing, trials and love interests of a Hemingway in his youth and early manhood. Each personal friend and recipient was an ideal reader and Hemingway acted accordingly, contouring his messaging style to each of them. Printed in the United States of America. 431 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # 021806

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922 [...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Edition: First Limited Edition.