Ernest Hemingway. First U.K. edition. Signed by artist on copyright. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. No dust jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in the book, 30 pp. Colored art illustrations by two-time Kate Greenaway Medal winner Michael Foreman. First published as a limited edition with only 100 copies.
The text is Hemingway's short story "The Faithful Bull," written in his characteristically spare, simple prose — it was originally published in Holiday magazine in 1951 as a kind of loose, dark parody of Ferdinand the Bull.
A must for Hemingway collectors, Foreman collectors, and anyone who loves rare illustrated first editions with real literary pedigree.
