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  • “Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; Warmly Inscribed by Him in the year of publication

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    A Farewell To Arms.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929.

    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.

    Price: $40,000.00     Item Number: 138836

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  • First edition of Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions; From the collection of young Ernest Hemingway with his ownership inscriptions to each volume

    HARRIS, FRANK. [ERNEST HEMINGWAY].

    Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions.

    New York: Printed and Published by the Author 1918.

    First edition of Shaw’s appreciation of Wilde. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of young Ernest Hemingway with his ownership name and address to the pastedown of each volume, “Ernest Hemingway Windemere Walloon Lake Michigan” and additional ownership name to volume one, “Hemingway.” Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago about which resident Frank Lloyd Wright said, “So many churches for so many good people to go to.” He was the second child of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician. Each summer the family traveled to Windemere, a cottage designed by Hemingway’s mother, on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan. There young Ernest joined his father and learned to hunt, fish, and camp in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan, early experiences that instilled a life-long passion for outdoor adventure and living in remote or isolated areas. Hemingway spent every summer at Windemere (from 1900 – 1920, save 1918) and he and his first wife, Hadley, honeymooned in the cottage in 1921. Hemingway returned to the cottage only once more in his life, in the early 1950s, despite the fact that his mother willed it to him upon her death. Hemingway used the northern Michigan setting in a number of his works, most featuring his character Nick Adams. The cottage appears in “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “Ten Indians,” “The Indians Moved Away,” “The Last Good Country,” and “Wedding Day.” In very good condition, the books were heavily read by young Hemingway. From the library of Ernest Hemingway by way of Hadley Hemingway. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Very rare and highly desirable.

    Price: $25,000.00     Item Number: 141864

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  • “I CAN'T STAND TO THINK MY LIFE IS GOING SO FAST AND I'M NOT REALLY LIVING IT”: Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta; Inscribed by Him

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises].

    London: Jonathan Cape 1955.

    Later printing of Hemingway’s first major novel published as Fiesta in the United Kingdom. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jack Lonsdale with best wishes Ernest Hemingway Ritz 10/9/56.” On this date, Hemingway was in Madrid for a bull fight with his wife Mary. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, owner name. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

    Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 130412

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  • Max Beerbohm's And Even Now; From the personal collection of young Ernest Hemingway

    BEERBOHM, MAX. [ERNEST HEMINGWAY].

    And Even Now.

    London: William Heinemann 1921.

    Second printing of Beerbohm’s critically praised book of essays, from the collection of Ernest Hemingway with his ownership signature, and later that of his first wife Hadley. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth and paper spine label. From the personal collection of young Ernest Hemingway with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper, “Ernest M. Hemingway” and his annotations in pencil on the opening chapter half-title and final page, bookseller ticket to the pastedown, “Fanny Butcher Books 75 East Adams Street Chicago.” Hemingway stopped signing with his middle initial early in his writing career, this, his personal copy of one of Beerbohm’s most highly praised works was heavily read by Hemingway and very influential on his early, economical writing style. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent suburb just west of Chicago. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park from 1913 until 1917 and, after being rejected by the U.S. Army for poor eyesight following his graduation, responded to a Red Cross recruitment effort and signed on to be an ambulance driver in Italy. After being seriously wounded by mortar fire in Italy, Hemingway returned home and fell in love with his first wife, Hadley Richardson. They were married on September 3, 1921 and soon moved to Paris where Hemingway was hired as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. In Paris, Hemingway would write and publish his first collections of short stories, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) and In Our Time (1925), and first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), which epitomized the post-war expatriate generation and is recognized as his “greatest work” (Myers, 192). Hemingway divorced Hadley in 1927 to marry his second wife, Pauline. From the collection of Ernest Hemingway, and later Hadley Richardson. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Scarce and highly desirable.

    Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 141576

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  • “ANY MAN'S LIFE, TOLD TRULY, IS A NOVEL": Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon; inscribed by him to his secretary

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    Death in the Afternoon.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1948.

    Early printing of Hemingway’s masterwork on bullfighting. Octavo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, frontispiece by Juan Gris, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper, “For Nita with regards and affection (Ernest Hemingway) Mr. Papa. Finca Vigía – SF. de Paula 22/7/49.” The recipient, Juanita “Nita” Jensen was Hemingway’s secretary at his home in the San Francisco de Paula Ward of Havana, Finca Vigia, from 1949 to 1952. While working as a secretary at the American embassy in Havana, Nita received government clearance to moonlight as a part-time secretary for Hemingway, typing the majority of his letters between 1949 and 1952. In 1952, she married diplomatic officer Walter Houk at Finca Vigía. In addition to hosting the wedding, Hemingway gave away the bride and cosigned the necessary legal paperwork and the couple became frequent visitors of the finca, often accompanying Hemingway on fishing trips aboard the Pilar and visits to his favorite local bar, the Floridita. Very good in a very good dust jacket with chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. An exceptional association.

    Price: $12,000.00     Item Number: 124152

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  • "I own one copy of Three Stories and Ten Poems and would be very happy if it became valuable": Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Excerpt

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST .

    Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Excerpt Signed.

    Chicago: The Walden Book Shop 1930.

    Rare letter excerpt boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Published by the Walden Book Shop in 1930, the introduction begins “The following notes are excerpts from a Hemingway letter in answer to questions concerning editions and numbers of copies.” It goes on to provide a long italicized quote from the letter in which Hemingway describes the printings of his early books from Three Stories and Ten Poems through the forthcoming Men Without Women (1927). The quote reads, in part: “…The books have been Three Stories and Ten Poems, Contact Press, 1953-350 copies out of print, In Our Times, Three Mountains Press, 1924, 150, I think…They claim to be issuing a new edition. Then Scribners published The Torrents of Spring in the spring of 1926 in an unrestrained edition and The Sun Also Rises came out in the same year with, I believe an attempt made to print and sell as many as possible…I own one copy of Three Stories and Ten Poems and would be very happy if it became valuable in order that I might have something to leave to my children.” Signed by Hemingway in he lower right corner of the pamphlet. In fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Hemingway. The entire piece measures 26 inches by 17 inches. An exceptional example.

    Price: $9,800.00     Item Number: 95977

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  • Rare First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    The Torrents of Spring.

    New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1926.

    First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the crown. An exceptional example.

    Price: $7,800.00     Item Number: 112442

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  • First Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls; Signed by Ernest Hemingway

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940.

    First edition, early printing of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Near fine in an excellent near fine first issue dust jacket without the photographer’s name to the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed by Hemingway.

    Price: $7,800.00     Item Number: 117657

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  • "I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; In the Original First State Dust Jacket

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    A Farewell To Arms.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929.

    First edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine first state dust jacket with the misspelling “Katharine Barclay” in the blurb on the front flap. A very sharp example of this highspot of American literature.

    Price: $7,800.00     Item Number: 143083

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  • Rare First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring

    HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.

    The Torrents of Spring.

    New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1926.

    First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.

    Price: $7,800.00     Item Number: 119154

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