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This has strong claims to be “the first major fictional workup of the flying saucer craze ... [The work] has something important to say to anyone who thinks about the self-responsible human being in relation to his/her society – and how his/her society can shove him/her casually into the dirt” (Patterson). Octavo. Original olive-green cloth, spine lettered in dark red. With dust jacket. A few trivial marks to rear joint. A fine copy in jacket, spine panel a little sunned, two tiny chips to head of folds of spine panel, foot of spine panel and corners nicked, rear panel a touch soiled, a few short closed tears and a little rubbing to edges, fugitive pink colouring preserved. ¶ William H. Patterson, Jr., “Introduction to The Puppet Masters ”, available online. £1,500 [156712] 75 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Voyage to Victory. New York: Collier’s, The National Weekly, 1944 “real war is never like paper war” Very rare first separate printing of Hemingway’s account of “a battle for a Normandy beachhead”, certainly one of the rarest items in any Hemingway collection. “The first of six dispatches which Hemingway sent from England and France during World War II” (Hanneman C330), Voyage to Victory was released by Collier’s in this very fragile separate printing as a promotional piece. Although Hemingway was loath to have his journalistic pieces placed alongside his fiction (“If
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you have made your living as a newspaperman, learning your trade, writing against deadlines, writing to make stuff timely rather than permanent, no one has any right to dig this stuff up and use it against the stuff you have written to write the best you can”), his reportorial work clearly was a great influence on his fiction, with episodes and sometimes language being used in later fiction. His work for Collier’s in 1944 was at a point when his marriage to Martha Gellhorn was unravelling in part because of the amount of time she was spending in Europe reporting from the front. “From his hospital bed, where he had been confined for five days by a head wound suffered in a London automobile accident, Collier’s correspondent Ernest Hemingway boarded an attack transport on the eve of D-Day – despite the protests of his doctors. This is a
report of what he saw the next morning, while taking part in the bloody assault on a Normandy beach.” As Hemingway notes in the prologue: “Real war is never like paper war, nor do accounts of it read much like the way it looks. But if you want to know how it was in an LCV(P) on D-Day when we took Fox Green beach and Easy Red beach on the sixth of June, 1944, then this is as near as I can come to it.” Octavo. Original wire-stitched grey wrappers. With dust jacket. Housed in a cloth chemise and morocco slipcase. Some faint dust-soiling and a few trifling nicks at edges of wrappers, leaves evenly toned within, very good. ¶ Grissom C432; Hanneman A21 & C330. £60,000 [158299]
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All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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