The Torrents of Spring.

Hemingway, Ernest

Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1926

About this Item

First edition of Hemingway's first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature of Hemingway to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Ernest Hemingwayâ s first novel and third published book was preceded by Three Stories and Ten Poems and the collection of stories In Our Time. â Hemingway was planning a carefully engineered campaign for breaking his contract with Boni and Liveright and maneuvering to place his novel [The Sun Also Rises] with Scribnerâ s. The vehicle wasâ ¦ [the] satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which was clearly calculated to cause problems with his publisher, since it was a deliberate parody of Sherwood Anderson [Boni and Liverightâ s best-selling author]. Boni and Liveright had the option on his next three books, one of which had to be a novel. If, however, they turned down the book that Hemingway submitted next, he was free of his obligations to the publisher and could go elsewhere.â Hemingway wrote Ezra Pound that he â had written â a funny bookâ â ¦ It was a satire on America, he claimed, â Probably unprintable but funny as hellâ ¦ Wrote it to destroy Sherwood [Anderson] and various othersâ ¦ Itâ s first really adult thing have done. Jesus Christ it is funnyâ ¦ It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson, Gertrude [Stein], [Sinclair] Lewis, [Willa] Cather, Hergo [Joseph Hergesheimer] and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastardsâ ¦ I donâ t see how Sherwood will ever be able to write againâ (Mellow, Hemingway). Seller Inventory # 122368

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Torrents of Spring.

Publisher: Charles Scribnerâ s Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1926

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition