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copy with a little tanning to the edges of the boards and a touch of fading to spine. $1,850 The binding of the copy is unrecorded by either of Hemingway’s bibliog- raphers, but is almost certainly publisher commissioned as it is stamped A.W.Bain & Co., who was the same trade binder that Cape used for the binding up of the standard copies of the first UK edition and uses the the same lettering and device on the spine. It is probably one of a small number produced for presentation or distribution among key Cape staff. “For any other writer it would have been a great masterpiece. As it is, it is the best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess.” - Anthony Burgess
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The author’s landmark first book, with the earliest issue of the dust jack - et with the plot summary on the rear panel. The earliest issue is so rare that Richard Layman describes only a later issue with reviews from The Bookman, The Outlook, and The Chicago Post. Red Harvest, which was originally published in four issues of Black Mask from November 1927 to February 1928, is acclaimed as the foundational text in the hardboiled detective genre, giving a darker cynical twist to the classic great detective figure exemplified by Sherlock Holmes. Drawing from his personal experiences as an operative with the Pinkerton De - tective Agency, Hammett portrayed a seedy, violent milieu inhabited by gangsters, corrupt cops, and flawed detectives hired to clean up the place. André Gide called Red Harvest “a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror.” IN PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION BINDING HEMINGWAY, Ernest FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Cape, 1941 [46506] First UK edition. Publisher’s presentation binding of half blue morocco with gilt lettering and ruled decoration on the spine. Gilt rules to cover. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bain & Co. binder’s signature to reverse of front endpaper. A near fine
DEDICATION COPY HUGHES, Ted THE IRON GIANT A story in five nights New York, Harper & Row, 1968 [46724] First American edition. A dedication copy, inscribed by Hughes to his and Sylvia Plath’s daughter Frieda, “For Frieda, love from Dad”. Original blue boards and pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrat-
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