True at First Light

Hemingway, Ernest; Patrick Hemingway, Introduction and Editor

ISBN 10: 0684849216 / ISBN 13: 9780684849218

Published by Scribner, New York, New York, USA, 1999

About this Item

Scribner, New York, New York, USA, 1999. Second (2nd) Printing (number line down to 2) of the First (1st) Edition. Very Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind, The Binding is black quarter cloth to dark green boards, colors uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, white endpapers unmarked except for a gift inscription on the front free endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original prices (US $26.00 Canada $38,50) intact on the front flap. See the accompanying photos. 319, [i] pages, including a Swahili Glossary. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". Subtitled on the dust jacket "A Fictional Memoir". Written about his 1953?54 safari in Kenya with his fourth wife Mary but never published in his lifetime, Hemingway's son Patrick edited the work to half its original length to strengthen the underlying storyline and emphasize the fictional aspects. Hemingway states, "In Africa a thing can be true at first light and a lie by noon . . . ." ISBN 10 / ISBN 13: 0684849216 / 9780684849218.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: True at First Light
• Publisher: Scribner, New York, New York, USA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684849216
• ISBN 13: 9780684849218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 6.375W x 9.5H x 0D inches 6.375 inches width by 9.5 inches height by 0 inches depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • General Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In commemoration of the Hemingway Centennial, the last unpublished work by the great American author contains a fictional account of his last African safari, a novel that mixes adventure, romance, and satire. 200,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. BOMC Main. QPB Alt.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers; like Mark Twain, Hemingway is one of those rare authors most people know about, whether they have read him or not. The difference is that Twain, with his white suit, ubiquitous cigar, and easy wit, survives in the public imagination as a basically, lovable figure, while the deeply imprinted image of Hemingway as rugged and macho has been much less universally admired, for all his fame. Hemingway has been regarded less as a writer dedicated to his craft than as a man of action who happened to be afflicted with genius. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1954, Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as "a globe-trotting expert on bullfights, booze, women, wars, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and courage." Hemingway did in fact address all those subjects in his books, and he acquired his expertise through well-reported acts of participation as well as of observation; by going to all the wars of his time, hunting and fishing for great beasts, marrying four times, occasionally getting into fistfights, drinking too much, and becoming, in the end, a worldwide celebrity recognizable for his signature beard and challenging physical pursuits.