Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Has both the Scribner seal and "A" on the copyright page. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good and Very Good+ condition respectively. This scarce original, first state, dust jacket, is in a mylar protective wrapper, and has the original price $3.50 on the inside flap. The jacket has chipping along most of the edges. There is also a piece missing from the top/bottom of the spine. In addition, there is some staining along the spine that branches outward on both the jacket and inside the book. No writing or markings found in the book, 517 pp. Contains black and white photographs. Frontpiece by Juan Gris and jacket illustration by Roberto Domingo.
This was Hemingway's sixth novel. Hemingway's favorite among his books, an exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw more as a heroic, tragic ceremony than as sport. John Dos Passos praised the book as "an absolute model for how that sort of thing ought to be done," and a contemporary review in The New York Herald Tribune described it as "full of the vigor and forthrightness of the author's personality."
