The Sun Rise Edition [6 Vols.].

Only Printing. Uniform Set. Grissom Collective: AA.1.I-VI.1.a. 3020cc. Alternate binding of deep burgundy ripple-grain cloth stamped in gilt at spines on black panels "The Sun Rise Edition." Complete in six volumes. Grissom notes alternate blue bindings which were issued in two slipcases (3 in each), but has no information on slipcase for this binding. No jackets were issued. Volume I: In Our Time [AA.1.I.1.a]. About Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine of book slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. Spine ends rubbed. 213pp. Volume II: The Sun Also Rises. [AA.1.II.1.a]. About Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine of book slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. 259pp. Volume III: Men Without Women. [AA.1.III.1.a]. Near Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. Spine ends rubbed. 232pp. Volume IV: A Farewell to Arms. [AA.1.IV.1.a]. Near Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine of book slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. Spine ends rubbed, especially at crown. 355pp. Volume V: Winner Take Nothing. [AA1.V.1.a] About Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine of book slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. 244pp. Volume VI: To Have and Have Not. About Fine. Top edge dusty. Text block toned. Spine of book slightly darkened. Offsetting to endpapers. 262pp. Given the limitation, it's probably not surprising that so few sets are found today. Scribner's mid-career issue of their famous author, in a uniform cloth binding. Though much of the best was yet to come (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, Islands in the Stream, The Garden of Eden, etc.), this collection is a neat division point in Hemingway's literary progress. Q16089. …