Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price $4.95 on inside flap (was eventually changed to $3.95). There is some minor chipping on the spine. There is a small area, the size of finger nail, that has some fading on front lower right of the cover. Otherwise, the jacket is in great condition. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Has the appropriate publishing mark, A-3.64(H), denoting a first edition. No writing or markings in this well preserved edition, 211 pp. Grey speckled cloth with orange spine and gold lettering in cover and spine. There is some foxing on the pages. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Contains black/white photographs.
Vignettes inspired by the author's profound nostalgia for the halcyon days of his early career while living in Europe, and particularly Paris in the 1920's with his first wife Hadley Richardson. Published posthumously (three years after his death).
Hemingway takes you along with him through the streets of Paris, watching fishermen along the Seine or dropping by to visit Sylvia Beach to borrow a book. Hemingway lived in a small apartment on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. He is reminded with vivid portraits of those he knew and of those he met along the way. The memory of Gertrude Stein providing little glasses of liquors, Ezra Pound boxing, and others including one of the more important portrayals, that of Scott Fitzgerald. This was the twenties in Paris and the story of his youth and friends.
