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Rare 1950s-1970s Paperback Collection including Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck's Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and many others
BRONTE, EMILY; AGATHA CHRISTIE; ERNEST HEMINGWAY; JACK KEROUAC; RUDYARD KIPLING; JOHN STEINBECK ET AL.
1950s-1970s Paperback Collection.
New York: Avon, Bantam, Dell, et al c. 1940-1960.
Large collection of first edition and early printings including a variety of classic literature and pulp fiction. Small octavos, 60 volumes, the collection includes Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, John Steinbeck’s Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans and many others. In very good to fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121681
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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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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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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 very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133647
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“I CAN'T STAND IT TO THINK MY LIFE IS GOING SO FAST AND I'M NOT REALLY LIVING IT”: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
The Sun Also Rises.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926.
First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s first major novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, Hemingway signature in gilt to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133895
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First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
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, 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.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 122368
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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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"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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First Appearane of Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; In the Original Serialized Issues
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
A Farewell To Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929.
First appearance of the Hemingway’s classic novel, serialized in Scribner’s Magazine. Scribner’s, May-October, 1929. Vol. LXXXV, No. 5-6, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 1-4. Contains the first appearance of the novel published on September 27, 1929. Quarto, original publisher’s orange pictorial paper wrappers, each with a design by Rockwell Kent. First and last issues with photographic frontispieces of Hemingway. In very good condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A nice example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144810
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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: $6,000.00 Item Number: 144215