Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original gray cloth. First edition of this separate printing. One 1174 copies for use primarily in libraries. This is a much better than average copy, a near fine copy. The front free endpaper is missing, but this copy wants a new one. Easily repairable.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ernest Hmeingway. The Fifth Column A Play in Three Acts. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: This is one of of 1,174 copies. Measuring approximately 8.75" x 5.75" with 101 numbered pages. This book is in good condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine and around all edges of boards. Minor stain on foredge of textblock. Red marking at front endpaper possibly reading "49". Stamp from previous owner at rear pastedown that has a D in a circle. The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(O3-43).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original gray cloth printed in red, slight foxing to cloth edges, preliminary and ending leaves, slight offsetting from jacket edges, glue bleed through to endpapers, previous owners name in ink on front free endpaper. In origina dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap, minor toning and wear to extremities. "The Fifth Column" first appeared in "The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories" in 1938. One of only 1174 copies printed. These copies were printed primarily for libraries who needed copies of the play only for their drama sections. Few copies survive with the original dust jacket, as most copies were either rebound or stamped as library copies. In archival dust jacket in custom-made slipcase. Very scarce.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.. The Fifth Column. A Play in Three Acts.. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
Price: US$3025.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, sole printing, without Scribner's 'A' on copyright page; 8vo; slight age-toning, discolouration to pastedowns from publisher's glue (as often), light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's grey cloth, titles to spine and upper cover in red, slight fading to spine and extremities, with the unclipped dustjacket printed in red, spine and edges toned, minor edge-wear, else very good. First separate edition of Hemingway's play with an original print run of 1174 copies. Adapted by Benjamin Glazer and produced by the Theatre Guild in 1940. Uniquely for Scribner's first printing post-1929, this publication does not require an 'A' on the copyright page, the reason being the play had been included in an earlier Scribner's publication. A copy does exist (Clive Hirschhorn) with an 'A' overstamped on the verso of the title page. We believe this to be some bookseller skulduggery in the 1960s. It is just possible that someone at Scribner's overstamped a handful of copies, which by definition must be later. Grissom A.16.1.d.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column: A Play in Three Acts. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940.
Price: US$3300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in red; [2],vii,[1],101pp. Dust jacket expertly restored; faint uneven toning to extremities; front free endpaper cockled from previously removed bookplate, else textblock fine. About Very Good overall. First separate edition of Hemingway's play with an original print run of 1174 copies. Adapted by Benjamin Glazer and produced by the Theatre Guild in 1940. HANNEMAN A17a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 101 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; one of about 1100 copies, according to Hanneman. Bookplate; very slight browning to endpapers; one corner slightly bumped; else a fresh copy in a nice example of the scarce jacket, with a few small chips.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Fifth Column A Play in Three Acts. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy of only 1174 copies printed. This copy is SIGNED by Ernest Hemingway on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Hemingway First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.