Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First printing/first issue of the first edition, with the Scribner's "A" and the Scribner's Seal on the copyright page (Hanneman A12a). Unclipped dust jacket is a new facsimile jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good condition. There are newspaper clippings of the publication glued to inside cover and flyleaf. Also, two stamp markings from a former bookstore are on the inside front/back of the book. Pages have wear as expected for a book almost 100 years old. No writing or other markings found on pages of book, 244 pp.
Ernest Hemingway's third collection of short stories and first new book of fiction since the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been previously published. Characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in western USA,
