Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing, one of only 10,300 copies. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Has both the Scribner seal and "A" are on the copyright page. There is some staining along the edge of front cover and a some topical markings on the rear cover. There is also some residue on the page after the flyleaf page. The inside cover has a small tear but does not affect the integrity of the book (see photo). The dust jacket is an exact facsimile of the original that we ordered to preserve the book. Contains black and white photographs. Frontpiece by Juan Gris and jacket illustration by Roberto Domingo. The book has a magazine article written by John Hersey on Spanish bullfighting that is glued to the flyleaf pages. There are no markings or writing found on any pages in the book, 517 pp.
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."
NB: we also have a true first edition of this edition with an original dust jacket if interested.
