Across The River And Into The Trees.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1950

About this Item

308 pp. 8vo. publisher's blue-black buckram; a variant presentation binding, taller than the trade issue. No paper dust jacket was made for the presentation bindings. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition; Advance Issue; an association copy signed and inscribed by Ernest Hemingway: "To Adriana from her business partner with love - Hemingstein White Tower 1951" Small area of erasure on the title page, possibly by the recipient, including a tiny area of replaced paper; some foxing to endsheets; lower corners a little bumped; otherwise bright and tight. "Renata" in the novel was based on the recipient of this book, Adriana Ivancich, whom Hemingway had met in 1949 at a shooting party on the lower Tagliamento. There was certainly an immediate attraction on the part of the author, and he pursued the young girl, and tolerated her mother and brother who accompanied her on several visits with Hemingway to the Finca. Adriana, careful to protect her reputation, always maintained that their relationship as portrayed in the novel was fiction, while Hemingway tended to suggest the opposite. There seems to be no question that in Hemingway's mind, the novel and reality became mixed, and his attentions to the young girl were occasionally embarrassing to Adriana and the Hemingways' friends and, eventually, infuriating to Mary Hemingway.

Seller Inventory # 79409

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Across The River And Into The Trees.
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 1950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)