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top edge red. With dust jacket (Grissom’s Jacket B “first printing”). Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Collector’s book label with abrasions to rear pastedown. Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped, corners slightly worn and bumped, some minor marks to rear cover, minor holes to outside joints, minor creases to final leaves and rear free endpaper; nevertheless, a tight and attractive, near- fine copy. Dust jacket consistently toned, extremities slightly frayed with minor tears and loss, small abrasion to front panel; a very good example of an unclipped jacket. ¶ Grissom A.7.1.a; Hanneman A7a. £6,750 [151228] 36 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929 Hemingway’s only signed limited edition First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, number 383 of 510 copies printed on large paper and signed by the author, of which 500 were for sale, published simultaneously with the trade issue on 27 September 1929. This edition of A Farewell to Arms is “the only signed limited issue of Hemingway’s works” (Grissom, p. 115). Octavo. Original half japon, blue-green paper sides, black morocco spine label, edges uncut, blue-green endpapers. Housed in the original black and red leaf-patterned slipcase with numbered printed label. Title page printed in black and green. A lovely copy, contents clean and crisp, in the original slipcase, edges a little rubbed, otherwise square and clean. ¶ Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman 8b. £12,500 [147660]
Octavo. Original pale yellowish-brown wrappers printed in black. Housed in a custom grey card case. Spine tanned, some skilful restoration to spine preserving all lettering, several folds strengthened, some minor internal browning; a very good and attractive copy. ¶ Boughn A8 a.i. £1,750 35 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927 Rare in dust jacket and in such fine condition First edition, first printing, of Hemingway’s collection of 13 stories in which, as noted by the blurb, “the softening feminine influence is almost wholly absent – either through training, discipline, death, or situation”. This title is uncommon in the dust jacket and in such fine condition. The volume was the author’s second collection of short stories. Reviewing the book in The New York Times on 16 October 1923, Percy Hutchison claimed “Mr Hemingway shows himself a master craftsman in the short story”. Grissom provides details of five dust jackets of which the present example is the “1st printing” (Jacket B) version. Grissom’s bibliography queries the standard view that “copies weighing ‘15.5 oz., or more’, and with a ‘perfect folio 3’ on p. 3, are the first copies of the first impression of Men Without Women” . The present [153848] copy weighs 16 oz. and has an unbroken number on p. 3. Octavo. Original black cloth, gold labels printed in black to spine and front cover (Grissom’s A binding), yellow decorated endpapers,
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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