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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HEMINGWAY PRESENTATION COPIES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE: Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to Hadley Hemingway and his son Jack (Bumby), on the dedication page, as Hemingway expands the printed dedication ('To Philip, to Charles, and to Sully') . Hemingway's continuing inscription, entirely in his hand in black ink, reads: 'also to Hadley and Paul and to Bumby with much love from Pauline, Ernest, Patrick. and Gregory, and all of Africa. The lion enclosed under separate cover is the same lion Pauline almost shot on page 40.' To our knowledge, this is the only presentation copy from Ernest to Hadley ever to come on the market. First edition, first printing of this classic Hemingway. Original black cloth stamped in gilt, in original jacket (jacket has a large chip to 'T' in title on spine extending to rear cover, with some other nicks and tears and tape repairs to verso; book has some minor fading in spots and light edge wear). Hanneman A10A (Scribner's seal and 'A' on title page verso; jacket complete with $3.50 price). Color frontispiece by Juan Gris; 81 b/w 'action photographs' on plates. 1 color & 81 b/w Illustrations. Hadley Richardson Hemingway, later Hadley Mowrer (1891-1979), first wife of Ernest Hemingway. As Hemingway later said, Hadley was Ernest Hemingway's greatest and truest love, the woman he betrayed to his everlasting regret. The subject of the recent 'The Paris Wife', she is a figure of enduring public interest. She married a second time, to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Mowrer in 1933, two years before this work was published. We have firm provenance for this book. The true first printing of the first edition in original jacket (green cloth binding has usual fading to spine and edges; minor wear; jacket has fading, nicks and wear from use). Hanneman A13A; with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso. Decorations by Edward Shenton. [8],294,[1] pages.

First edition, first issue. First edition, first issue. word stop on p. 181; especially fine dust jacket with portrait of Hemingway on rear; very light shelf wear to edges; quarter morocco box.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy limited to 170 numbered copies. The book is bound in the publisher's pictorial paper boards and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy seldom seen in this amazing shape. We buy Hemingway First Editions.

30,[2]pp. Small quarto (26.5 x 17 cm). Decorated boards, printed in black and red. Frontis portrait by Henry Strater. Inevitable tan offsetting to endsheets from the binder's glue, minuscule losses at extreme crown and toe of spine, a bit of light rubbing, but a very good copy, rather above the norm, with the small Shakespeare & Company book label on the rear pastedown. Cloth slipcase and chemise (with sunning to the spine and some discoloration to the lower panel). First edition of Hemingway's second book, published as the sixth and final title in Ezra Pound's Inquest Series. This is copy number 71 of 170 numbered copies printed on Rives handmade paper, from a total printing of approximately 300 copies. Grissom records sources indicating that in addition to the 170 numbered copies offered for sale, the additional 130 copies were marred by an imperfect placement of the frontis image over the watermark in the paper and were thus utilized as review and gift copies. This is an excellent association copy, bearing the early ink ownership signature of African American poet, novelist and journalist Claude McKay toward the top edge of the half-title (the recto of the leaf bearing the frontis). In his 1937 autobiography, A LONG WAY FROM HOME, McKay records at length his impressions of Hemingway in Paris, and singles out this book in particular for recognition: "Ernest Hemingway was the most talked-about of young American writers when I arrived in Paris. He was the white hope of the ultra-sophisticates . It was therefore exciting that Ernest Hemingway had won the regard and respect of the younger artists and even of the older . In Our Time, that thin rare book of miniature short stories, was published, and it was the literary event among the young expatriates. I cherish an unforgettable memory of it and of Montparnasse at that time . I was excited by the meteor apparition of Ernest Hemingway. I cannot imagine any ambitious young writer of that time who was not fascinated in the beginning. In Paris and in the Midi, I met a few fellows of the extreme left school, and also a few of the moderate liberal school and even some of the ancient fossil school - and all mentioned Hemingway with admiration. Many of them felt that they could never go on writing as before after Hemingway . In Our Time contains the frame, the background, the substance of all of Hemingway's later work . I find in Hemingway's works an artistic illumination of a certain quality of American civilization that is not to be found in any other distinguished American writer . All I can say is that in literature he has most excellently quickened and enlarged my experience of social life" - "Berlin and Paris," Chapter XXI, pp.237-52. GRISSOM A.2.1.a. HANNEMAN A2. MODERN MOVEMENT 49.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing Limited to 170 numbered copies printed. This is copy number 93. The book is bound in ORIGINAL paper boards from the publisher with some restoration to the spine. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean, with the binder's glue stains on the endpapers. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.

Hardback. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. [8], 9-286pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ lightly browned, lower panel very lightly browned, minor chipping to corners, slightly rubbed, especially to joins, and very lightly creased. Spine of book lightly faded, endpapers lightly browned from the glue, small stain to top margin of A6-B4, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Now housed in a morocco backed drop back box, with raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, author to fourth, and date to foot, all panels with double line gilt border, made by Temple Bookbinders. An early Hemingway work, published in the US as 'The Sun Also Rises', in the rare first issue dust jacket. A cornerstone of modernist fiction, Connolly notes that "here the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and the pains of love", further opining that Hemingway became "an immediate symbol of an age" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, page 53). Hanneman 33A; Connolly, 'The Modern Movement', 50 Size: 8vo.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, copy number 23 of a limited 170 copies. 30 [1] pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with news-clipping design. Near Fine with light edge wear, light wear to spine ends with a closed tear roughly one-inch from the base (though suggesting no restoration), toning to spine and the usual browning to the endsheets. Housed in a custom cloth chemise case with morroco title label stamped in gilt. Hemingway's scarce second published book, and his first of short fiction. Though intended to be published in an edition of 300 copies, due to a printing error only 170 were released and originally sold through Sylvia Beach's literary juggernaut of a bookshop, Shakespeare & Company.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A wonderful copy bound in the original blue wraps. The binding is tight, with light wear to the edges and minor discoloration to the panels. The pages are clean, with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. HEMINGWAY, Ernest: AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGNED HEMINGWAY RARITY. One of only 10 copies intended solely for his own private distribution of A Farewell to Arms. His first bestseller, this copy of Arms from the library of Owen Wister Jr., the father of Western fiction, author of the bestselling 1902 novel The Virginian. Hemingway held Wister in high regard, describing Wister s stories as a lesson to our generation in how to write, to his editor Maxwell Perkins. Arguably Hemingway s greatest work, A Farewell to Arms is the only Hemingway work issued in a signed limited edition. Five hundred copies were numbered and sold to the public. This is one of the ten unnumbered copies intended only for Papa s personal sharing. 8vo (222 x 146 mm). Full crushed blue morocco, covers twice ruled in gilt with gilt cornerpieces, upper cover reproducing the original design of the first trade edition dust jacket of this title by Cleon (1895-1979) in various color morocco onlays and gilt-work, flat spine lettered in white and blazing orange with a single vertical gilt filet and small gilt devices, edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers, turn ins gilt, GILT STAMP-SIGNED BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. Positively Sumptuous. We see no other such copy available for decades past. Book #vP1453. $43,500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand and other legends and landmarks of lifetimes. Signed by Author(s).

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter twice signed "Papa" to Peter Viertel. Finca Vigia, Cuba, 29 September 1949. Quarto, two sheets of Hemingway's "Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba" stationery, each leaf measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches, typed in black ink, single-spaced, on one side of each leaf for two full pages of typed text, heavily annotated in pen by Hemingway. $42,000.Extraordinary typed and heavily annotated letter from Hemingway in Cuba to friend and fellow author and screenwriter Peter Viertel in Malibu, California, a long, lively letter discussing his writing progress, a proposed trip, hunting and shooting pigeons, drinking, baseball and a new whore in town, with over 150 words of additional notes written in the margins and on the verso of the second page in blue ink by Hemingway. Twice signed as 'Papa.'.The letter, on Hemingway's Finca Vigia stationery, addressed to Peter Viertel in Malibu, CA, reads in full [with Hemingway's manuscript annotations in brackets and italics]:[Poor John, the ex-light weight champion, with his bag of feathers. I'll be god-damned. Papa.]Dear Peter: Am awfully sorry to be answering your letter of 31 August now. I thought I had done it but have been working so very hard that it got mixed in with other stuff that I put away in the "Must Be Answered at Once". [That is no damn excuse. Have been jamming like in a six day bike race.]It would be wonderful if you an Jige could go across at the same time as we do. We will be leaving on the ILE DE FRANCE from New York on 1 November. Please don't tell this to anyone as I want to get in and out o town quiet. Will be pooped from working on book and I want to see the town anyway without all that crap. Have done over 15,000 words snice I got your letter. Been going like I was possessed by the devil and figure, with luck, to finish this book now in three weeks. Then we don't have to worry about nothing. Please keep security on this, too.Don't worry about the Finca being empty. It would have been wonderful to have you guys out here as I think it is a good place to live and to work. But a Hell of a nice girl who works in the Embassy will stay out here while we are gone and that we will not have to worry. I only hate to have it empty when you keep on the big staff of servants who you cannot let go without giving them three months' pay. We plan to be in Europe for some six weeks to two months. Will be in Paris for a little while and then go down to Venice. This is going to be the last year of the great shoot there as the duck marshes are going to be drained for some agrarian reform project. If you wanted to come down there for a little while we could get in a couple of damned good shoots. Fifty to sixty high flying ducks in a day is about what you'd get in a season in the states. They have mallards, pintail, widgeon, teal, redheads and lots of unknown ducks; all coming down from behind the Iron Curtain and plenty fat. I think they must fly over the Iron Curtain at night.Everything goes good down here. Mary is up in Chicago checking on her folks who are quite old and she should pay them a visit. Haven't heard from her yet about how they are because she figures that we are at sea. [(they are ok but her mother too bored with death coming on and too fragile to travel.)] But we had to put back in after six days out because there are about five tropical disturbances forming and kicking around. In the bad weather we stayed at Puerto Escondido, you remember the place where I shot that iguana, and I wrote 5,000 some words while we were holed up. Have been having awfully good luck with it and it goes as fast as when I wrote THE SUN ALSO RISES in six weeks and the day I wrote THE KILLERS in Madrid one morning when it snowed and a story called TEN INDIANS in the afternoon and then couldn't cool out and wrote TODAY IS FRIDAY in the evening. After that got drunk. The only trouble writing alone here is like pitching with nobody in the stands or making a Hell of a fight to absolutely empty seats. [I wonder why this girl capitalizes Hell. Must be early training.] Have been pitching one hit and no hit ball and am pitching double headers like Ed Walsh. He was the only man they said who could ever strut while sitting down but he won 40 ball games in one year for a team that never gave him more than one or two runs. I'm going awfully good. With the Hell you and Jige were here to read it and tell me whether it's as good as it feels. When you're half a hundred years old you ought to be able to tell pretty well, though, unless you've gone into your second childhood. Hope this hasn't happened. Would like to live to be a smart and mean old man. Removed. And just lay back and let the bastards lead. Have scrapped about 100,000 words. After all, the test of whether a book is any good is how much good stuff you can remove from it. This also confidential.John's evening life with his hound sounds very interesting. What happens here is that I wake up around 3 or 4 in the morning and go to work and Blackie wakes up very reluctantly because he certainly loves his sleep, and then lies down beside where I am working and keeps his eyes open all the time. He had a terrible nervous crisis when we made him retrieve a couple of pigeons at the club. He doesn't believe in hurting anything nor in anything hurting him. [Have got him threw [sic] it and he retrieved 17 then 22 and yest 40. I killed 23 x 25 from 30 meters.] All cats are fine and so are all the dogs. Please give my best to Eddie Rolfe and tell him I am writing him. Have been terribly remiss on letters on account of working so hard. When you finish working you try to get some exercise so as to be able to sleep a little so you can work the next day. I can always work but I know you have to feed the horse and let him rest sometimes.I am shooting good and have been practicing shooting pigeons from 30 meters so as to be able to go up to the big shoot in Kansas City next March if my form justifies.

First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Eleanor Havre from her friend Ernest Hemingway Paris October 18 1929." Near fine in a very good first state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, and Adolphe Menjou.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of Ernest Hemingway's rare first book (Hanneman A1a), one of only 300 copies issued. A nearly perfect copy in the original grayish-blue wraps. The only defect is a tiny nick to the top of spine. Housed in a custom burgundy cloth clamshell box for protection. One of the great literary rarities of the 20th century, and of American literature as a whole.

First American Edition, second printing, March 1927. A WONDERFUL SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE. 8vo, publisher s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with gilt geometric decorations on the upper cover. 214, (1) pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST BOOK OF STORIES OTHER THAN THE WORK WHICH INCLUDED TEN POEMS. This was the author's first book published in the U.S., only his second published book and the first that was published for the general trade audience. Fewer than 1400 copies of the first issue of the book were published, and even less of this second issue which is considered to be more rare than the first. It was influenced, as was THREE STORIES AND TEN POEMS (1923) by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, while spokespersons for the "Lost Generation. There is excellent provenance associated with this copy which was inscribed and presented to Major General Milton Foreman who was a hero in the Spanish-American War, the Mexican Border Service Campaign and World War I. It is pprobable that Hemingway met him during the First World War. 'In the Spanish-American War, he enlisted in the Army as a private in Troop C, First Calvary, on December 5, 1895. He worked his way up the ranks until he was a captain. In the Mexican Border Service, he was a colonel commanding the First Calvary Division of the Illinois National Guard Colonel Milton J. Foreman, of the Illinois National Guard, received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in World War I while serving in France. When his unit came under heavy artillery and machine gun fire, he crept through the German gunfire, laying out telephone wire so that he could tell his artillery where the enemy had its gun positions. Foreman found the enemy gun positions and directed his artillery to lay down a barrage of shells to destroy them. General Foreman was awarded for bravery the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star Citations, French Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order of the Crown. During World War II, Foreman was honored when a merchant liberty ship was named the S.S. Foreman. When World War I ended, he was discharged and appointed a colonel in the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to brigadier general on June 23, 1920 and major general on March 19, 1921. Upon Foreman s retirement, in 1931, he was promoted to Lieutenant General. General Foreman was one of the organizers of the American Legion and he was elected chairman of its executive committee at the Paris Caucus, at which he represented Illinois. During the Legion's third national convention in 1921, he was designated as a past national commander by resolution. Foreman was born on January 26, 1863, in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated here and eventually became an attorney, being admitted to the bar in 1899. He served as a member of the Chicago City Council from 1899 to 1911. He was very active in politics and civic affairs. Foreman had the confidence of presidents, cabinet members, senators, governors and mayors. He was a bachelor and a collector of rare books. He died on October 18, 1935' see Seymour "Sy" Brody.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. HADLEY HEMINGWAY'S PERSONAL COPY SIGNED BY HER. A superb association copy, signed with the ownership inscription of Hadley Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's first wife and greatest and truest love, on front endpaper, in her fine hand: 'Hadley R. Hemingway, 98 3rd. Auguste Blanqui Paris.' A poignant association copy, given the profound impact Hemingway's fascination with Spanish bullfighting had on his relationship with Hadley (even giving their son Jack a middle name in honor of a bullfighter), and the part it played in his ultimate betrayal of Hadley (to his everlasting regret), the woman he referred to as his true love. First edition, first printing of this classic Hemingway. Original black cloth stamped in gilt, in original jacket (jacket has a large chip to 'T' in title on spine extending to rear cover, with some other nicks and tears and tape repairs to verso; book has some minor fading in spots and light edge wear). Hanneman A10A (Scribner's seal and 'A' on title page verso; jacket complete with $3.50 price). Color frontispiece by Juan Gris; 81 b/w 'action photographs' on plates. 1 color & 81 b/w Illustrations. Hadley Richardson Hemingway (1891-1979), first wife of Ernest Hemingway. The subject of the recent 'The Paris Wife', she is a figure of enduring public interest. She married a second time, to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Mowrer in 1933, the year after this work was published. We have firm provenance for this book.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, limited to 510 copies, of which this is number 497, and SIGNED by the author. A superlative copy bound in the original Publisher's half-vellum over light blue paper-covered boards, with leather spine label titles in gilt. The book is in excellent condition with the text unopened and UNREAD. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy SIGNED by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page. Includes the original patterned paper slipcase with red label at front, that is hand-numbered 497 that matches the number in the book. Signed by Author(s).

A surreal, scandalous letter, in which the author imagines the film star "drunk and naked" in an erotic fantasy which gets darker and more salacious by the line. Hemingway also expresses his loving feelings for Dietrich, and describes his fishing work for the film adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway and Dietrich first met on the New York-bound ocean liner SS Île de France in 1934 and went on to enjoy a lifelong friendship. Although their letters to each other are heartfelt and provocative, they never became lovers, and Hemingway himself described them as "victims of un-synchronized passion. Those times when I was out of love, the Kraut was deep in some romantic tribulation, and those occasions when Dietrich was on the surface and swimming about with those marvellously seeking eyes, I was submerged" (quoted in Hotchner). Both Dietrich and Hemingway enjoyed great success in their respective careers in the 1950s - Dietrich starred in films by Hitchcock and Billy Wilder, and Hemingway won the Nobel Prize - but by 1955 both were forced to compromise their artistry to maintain an income. Dietrich was mainly doing live performances in cabarets, and Las Vegas had become a frequent venue. Addressing Dietrich as "Dearest Kraut", Hemingway opens his letter by replying to her complaints about her Las Vegas show, offering some irreverent suggestions for a collaboration: "If I were staging it would probably have something novel like having you shot onto the stage, drunk, from a self propelled minnenwerfer which would advance in from the street rolling over the customers. We would be playing 'Land of Hope and Glory'. As you landed on the stage drunk and naked I would advance from the rear, or your rear wearing evening clothes and would hurriedly strip off my evening clothes to cover you revealing the physique of Burt Lancaster Strognfort and announce that we were sorry that we did not know the lady was loaded. All this time the Thirty ton S/P/ Mortar would be bulldozing the customers as we break into the Abortion Scene from Lakme. I play it with a Giant Rubber Whale called Captain Ahab and all the time we are working on you with pulmotors and reversed vacuum cleaners which blow my evening clothes off you. You are foaming at the mouth of course to show that we are really acting and we bottle the foam and sell it to any surviving customers." The letter reveals Hemingway's intense and colourful feelings for Dietrich: "I love you very much and I never wanted to get mixed in any business with you as I wrote you when this thing first was brought up. Neither of us has enough whore blood for that. Not but what I number many splendid whores amongst my best friends and certainly never, I hope, could be accused of anti-whoreism. What I hear from the boys is that many people in Las Vegas or three of four anyway of the mains are over-extended. But watch all money ends. Some people would as soon have the publicity of making you look bad as of your expected and legitimate success. But that is the way everything is everywhere and no criticism of Nevada. Cut this paragraph out of this letter and burn it if you want to keep the rest of the letter in case you thought any of it funny. I rely on you Kraut as an officer and gentleman to do this." While Dietrich was performing in Vegas, Hemingway was being courted in Hollywood to turn The Old Man and the Sea into a film. He describes in his letter his thoughts on adapting his work for the screen: "Marlene, darling, I write stories but I have no grace for fucking them up for other mediums. It is hard enough for me to learn to write to be read by the human eye. I do not know how, nor do I care to know how to write to be read by parrots, monkeys, apes, baboons, nor actors. This week Thursday we start photography on fishing. Am in charge of fishing etc. and it is going to be difficult enough." Hemingway signs the letter "Papa" and adds an autograph postscript on the difficulty of finding fish big enough to represent the story's famous giant marlin: "Started OK in on fishing - one 472 lbs and one 422 lbs very good close shots of harpooning at the end but fish was too small even in cinemascope for what we need - must have bigger fish - system of photography and the way local boats work and how close we can ride herd on them very good. Steer 7 to 10 hrs on flying bridge and it is hard work." Parts of the letter were quoted in The Guardian (10 March 2014), but the full letter remains unpublished. A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir, 2018. 2 sheets of Finca Vigia letterhead paper (278 x 215 mm), typed on one side only, second sheet handwritten on verso. Lightly creased from folding, otherwise excellent condition.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing, and first thus with the inclusion of additional stories, preceded by a much shorter Paris edition, just 32 pages in length, published one year prior; additionally the author's first book to be published in America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding, stamped in gilt to upper board and spine. Near Fine with former owner bookplate to front paste down, pages lightly tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, slightly darkened and chipped at the edges, wear to the spine ends, short split started along the bottom edge of the front spine joint and a tear at the top end of the rear flap fold with associated creasing to the rear panel. This first printing was limited to only 1335 copies. Hanneman A3.A.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the Scribner's Seal printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. This First Issue dustjacket has the First Issue points with NO blurbs on the orange lines. Later Issue dustjackets have blurbs printed on the front panel of the dustjacket. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy Hemingway First Editions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's "A" and Seal printed on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by Ernest Hemingway on a check laid into the book. A fabulous copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears with minor repair. This First Issue dustjacket has the $3.50 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy SIGNED by the author and housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy SIGNED Hemingway First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $2.00 printed price present and is rich in color with NO chips or tears with minor repair. The book is bound in the publisher's black cloth and in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the board are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy housed in a custom clamshell box for preservation. We buy Hemingway First Editions.

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. (1899-1961) American Nobel Prize winning author and journalist; published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Remarkable Typed Letter Signed 'Ernest Hemingway', on his Finca Vigia, San Francisco De Paula, Cuba stationary. Full page, quarto. San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. January 2, 1950. To: 'the editors of LIFE Magazine'. Hemingway writes: 'Dear Sirs and Madams : In your issue of October 30th received here have noted a pictorial account or the capture, torture and assassination of a black bear cub by certain photogenic inhabitants of RATON , New Mexico. It is the most shameful and disgusting series of pictures I have ever seen and I praise for the way that you have presented these people; if we can call them people. If you will be so good as to furnish me a list of the five people involved I will be very happy to call them out at a distance of five paces with any weapon they elect. I suggest twelve guage shot guns. But they may use any weapon they prefer. At that distance, as you know, it is impossible to miss except for a sadist of Raton (you probably knew the translation of the name). I would like to take in order the largest and supposed toughest one of these sadists and my wife would prefer the good doctor who shoots with a telescope sight at twelve yards. The others we could divide up among ourselves. They seem to me to be cowards, sadists, and the rest of it and in the old days we would have simply told them to get out of town. If dueling should be illegal in a town or state or the United States a meeting could be arranged. Please furnish me the names of these characters and inform me of their various names and addresses. We will take them in order; and at five paces; but their faces have the look of those who strictly do not show. Yours respectfully, Ernest Hemingway Mary Welsh Hemingway Roberto Herrera y Sotolongo P.S. The list of challengers is much longer and there will finally be five challengers for each of the well pictured characters. I will be comeing [sic] through Raton, New Mexico, unarmed, and will be prepared to deal in a preliminary with any of them if they like it that way'. A defining Hemingway letter, that is just superb, and worthy of inclusion in the finest of literary collections! They don't get much better than this. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Copy #398 of a limited 510, signed by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page. Publisher's pale green paper covered boards over vellum spine, black leather title label to spine stamped in gilt, in publisher's leaf-patterned slip case with red title label to front panel with matching number. Near Fine with slight toning to binding, light soiling and wear to spine, several small nicks to the bottom edge. In Near Fine publisher's original slipcase with light rubbing and light toning. A beautiful copy of the only signed limited edition ever issued of Hemingway's work. Hanneman 8B.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Number 244 of 510 copies of the signed, limited edition, printed on large paper. Available simultaneously with the trade edition. Original half japon, over paper boards, black morocco spine label. Spine head bumped, small skinning to head of spine label, binding faintly toned. Slight rubbing and wear to slipcase. Housed in the publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase, and additionally housed in a custom yellow morocco clamshell. "Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old, and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from WWI, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front, and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield, this gripping, semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to the novel 39 times to get the words right. The result is what the Washington Times called 'a towering ornament of American literature'" (Hemingway Library). Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman A8b. Near Fine.

Signed limited first edition. First edition, limited issue. Copy #167 of a limited 510, signed by Ernest Hemingway on the limitation page. [x], 355 pp. Bound in publisher's pale green paper covered boards over vellum spine, black leather title label to spine stamped in gilt, housed in publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase with red title label to front panel with matching number. Near Fine with toning to boards, slight darkening to spine vellum, residue from removed bookplate on paste down, in Near Fine slipcase, lightly edge-worn. An attractive copy of the only signed limited edition ever issued of Hemingway's work. Hanneman 8B.

First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, number 33 of 510 copies printed on large paper and signed by the author. This was Hemingway's only signed limited edition, of which 500 copies were made available for sale simultaneously with the trade issue on 27 September 1929. Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman A8b. Octavo. Original half japon, black morocco spine label, blue-green paper sides and endpapers, leaves unopened. Housed in the publisher's leaf-patterned slipcase with printed and hand-numbered red label; additionally housed in a custom grey quarter morocco solander box. Title page printed in black and green. Bookplate of Edward Scher. Spine ends bumped, light tanning to japon, internally fresh; slipcase a little rubbed and worn, remaining sound: a near-fine copy.

Hardcover. First Edition. Original vellum spine and green boards with vellum tips. Copy #48 of 510 SIGNED by the author, Hemingway's only signed and limited edition. An absolutely gorgeous copy, the boards and the vellum both sparkling fresh with the black leather label completely intact and bright. Housed in a new and attractive slipcase reproducing the original and on which the original limitation label has been mounted. Laid in are receipts for purchase of this book from 1932 (private purchase for five dollars) and 1984 (Goodspeed's). A beautiful, Fine copy of this desirable book in an attractive new slipcase.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Early Printing. ca. 1954. Early printing. Signed on the front free endpaper by Ernest Hemingway and inscribed "To James and Katrina Hammon / wishing them all good / things always / Ernest Hemingway," underneath which Ernest's wife Mary Hemingway has inscribed "and Mary / July 3rd, 1956 / Finca Vigia / San Francisco de Paula, Cuba". Bound in publisher's original light blue cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with light fraying to corners and spine ends, upper corner bumped, light creasing to rear cover, upper corner of the two front free endpapers are clipped. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning, soiling and wear, with several short closed tears and small nicks. Perhaps the author's most widely-read work, signed by him and his wife.

?When you are dead you are dead for a long time."?He advises a young woman friend, ?Please be careful about aircraft?It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly.??Hemingway will send her an animal skin from his African safari to decorate her new house"?Our trophies ( sic ) were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here."After covering the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vig?a (?Lookout Farm?), an unpretentious estate outside Havana, Cuba. In 1940 he published ?For Whom the Bell Tolls?, which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in ?A Farewell to Arms? he focused on its pointlessness, and in ?For Whom the Bell Tolls? on the comradeship it creates. During World War II, he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely, and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari, the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash, only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well, newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public.Soon after, he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for ?The Old Man and the Sea?, a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine, and the 50,000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days.In 1955, back in Cuba, Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors? advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife?s? efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months, suffering from hepatitis and nephritis.Hemingway's relationship with faith was complicated. Raised protestant, he converted to catholicism but was largely religiously indifferent. He had seen so much death and tragedy. At this point evidently, he had long since abandoned the faith of his youth.Mary Lou Firle, a second year student at CCNY, was in Cuba in early 1955. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had, ?Farewell to Arms.? She picked up the phone and called Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added, ?I have a friend at Fordham University.? Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up.After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. She had told him of her family background, that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan, and Hemingway called her the ?Black Kraut.? The reason for the nickname, Hemingway said, was that he called his good friend, Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress, ?Kraut?; so Mary Lou, who was very tan, would be the ?Black Kraut.? Later that day Hemingway?s driver drove her back to Havana. The two exchanged letters in July 1955. She wrote him again in October and received this response.In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll, and he was grateful to have the weather interrupt the filming. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to "A Farewell to Arms" numerous times, and that is possibly the writing he refers to.Typed letter signed, with typewriter corrections and a pencil notation by Hemingway, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, October 6, 1955, to Mary Lou, on his fear of flying and unbelief in the afterlife, signed EH, with the original envelope sending it. He also jokes about the equity that hurricanes are named invariably after women.?Thank you for writing and I wish to congratulate your mother and your new step father if they would like that. I hope they are happy. With a good daughter like you they should be.?Am very happy you took your vacation up north as down here it was rugged with the effects of the different hurricanes. Hope we are not going to have Za-Za. I knew a girl named Janet once but she never killed any people in Barbados nor Tampico. It is easy to get tired of this naming tropical storms after girls and I think it is in bad taste especially when you have been through bad tropical storms.?Please be careful about aircraft. If I ever see you will tell you how and why. It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly. No second thoughts will help you and when you are dead you are dead for a long time. Maybe we are only alive when we are dead but I have not believed that for a long time. Excuse me if I am pedantic about aircraft but everybody is pedan.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the original review slip from the publisher. This FIRST ISSUE dustjacket with 9 titles listed on the back panel is rich in color with minor wear to the spine. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the publisher's $1.50 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the Advance Review Slip laid into the book. We buy Hemingway First Editions.