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PRESENTATION COPY OF HEMINGWAY’S FIRST BOOK
48. Three Stories & Ten Poems HEMINGWAY, Ernest
Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First edition. Original blue-gray wrappers printed in black. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed for the poets Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead, “To Ernest Walsh / and Miss Moorhead / with love from Ernest Hemingway / Paris 1924.” A near fine copy, with a just a little wear to the base of the spine and wrappers slightly dusty. Housed in custom blue slipcase with chemise. [45457] £125,000 A fine association copy of Hemingway’s first book, inscribed to fellow American expatriate poet and one of his Paris publishers. Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead co-founded and edited This
Quarter, a Paris literary magazine, which as well as Hem- ingway published James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein among others. Walsh had been invalided out of the American Air Service during WWI and after four years in hospital and slowly dying from tuberculosis, moved to Paris in 1922 where he befriended Ezra Pound. Pound introduced Walsh to the wealthy Scottish poet and artist Ethel Moorhead, who became his benefactor and funded their magazine. Walsh met Hemingway at Pound’s studio, a meeting and the subsequent lunch, which Hem- ingway later used as the basis for chapter 13 of A Moveable Feast, in which he describes Walsh as “dark, intense... and clearly marked for death.” Three Stories and Ten Poems was published by Robert McAlmon in a printing of just 300 copies. The book was printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere, the same printer Sylvia Beach had used for Ulysses the previous year. PROVENANCE: Ernest Walsh and Ethel Moorhead (pres- entation inscription from the author); Sherrill Bigelow (bookplate); Harry Bacon Collamore (bookplate).
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