Ernest Hemingway. Later U.K. edition, ninth impression. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in this well-preserved copy, 471 pp. There is a small tear on spine of DJ that has been taped for jacket preservation.
Ernest Hemingway’s The First Forty-Nine Stories remains one of the essential collections of twentieth-century American literature. Gathering many of Hemingway’s finest short stories—including The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Killers, Indian Camp, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber—this volume showcases the economical prose and emotional depth that earned Hemingway the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A wonderful addition for collectors of Ernest Hemingway, modern first editions, and classic twentieth-century literature.
