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Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 1000 numbered copies, this one #876 with second issue endpapers. 60 pp. Hardcover, bound in cloth. Light edge-wear.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Ernest Hemingway. The Spanish earth. The J. B. Savage company, 1938.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition, second issue (with plain endpapers). 8vo. Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell. With an introduction by Jasper Wood. One of 100 numbered copies. Includes a statement from Jasper Wood on the back endpaper that quotes from Hemingway's telegram of protest. Fine in slipcase, no dj as issued.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. J.B. Savage Company, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 1000 copies, this copy out of series. Introduction by Jasper Wood. Illustrations by Frederick K. Russell. Second state endpapers. Near Fine. Tan buckram, bumped at the top edge, with black and orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The text of Hemingway's narration for the film of the same title about the Spanish Civil War.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. The J. B. Savage Company, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second issue with plain endpapers. This is number 258 of 1000 copies. A fine copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition second issue without the FAI banners as the endpapers. The FAI banners were covered with plain paper endpapers. Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell. Cloth at rear and along front offset from the glue underneath. Covers very bright and unworn. One of 1000 copies printed. This copy is un-numbered. Acetate covers in custom-made cloth slipcase.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland: J.B. Savage Co., 1938, 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; second issue. Very good to fine. The only Hemingway first edition published by a high school student. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. The J. B. Savage Company, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, number 433 of a limited 1,000 copies. Second state with plain end papers and disclaimer on the rear paste down. Near Fine. Light bowing to boards, light rubbing to cloth at corners, small stain to rear cover. Previous owner details in ink and emboss to front free end paper. The text of the narration of Hemingway's contribution to a 1938 film bearing the same name.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very impressive copy of the 1938 stated 1st edition. #353 of 1,000 numbered copies issued. Purportedly the 2nd issue, with the blank --rather than the pictorial-- endpapers. This copy though includes its fragile and uncommon original dustjacket. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp example of the unprinted glassine jacket, with a clean, thin tear running across the front panel and light chipping at the panel edges. The jacket is 95% complete and surely accounts for the superb condition of the book itself. 12mo, Introduction by Jasper Wood, the illustrations (woodblocks --or linocuts) by Frederick K. Russell. This deeply political work --set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War-- is essentially dedicated by Hemingway to John Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman and Archibald MacLeish.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Ernest Hemingway. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland: J.B. Savage Co., 1938.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition (Stated) of this relatively scarce, slim 12mo volume, #593 of a limited edition of only one thousand numbered copies. The eloquent work which magazine called Hemingway at his best. A perfectly fine, tight copy of the authors defense of Loyalist Spain. Book is actually the text of the narration that Hemingway wrote for the 1938 film (and which he, along with Orson Welles delivered), a pro-Republican documentary about the Spanish Civil War. A lovely copy in glassine wrapper. Written in red on the front free endpaper is the following by the previous owner, the famed scholar and bibliophile: Frederick R. Spitzer / Trinity College / Hartford Connecticut / 15:III:39
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Ernest Hemingway (Narrator). The Spanish Earth. J. B. Savage Company, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Introduction by Jasper Wood; Limited to 1000 copies; Tan buckram, black titles, & red / orange illustration to cover, A near fine copy with three 3/8" tape stains on feps; 60 pages.
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. J B Savage Company, 1938.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition of 1000 copies. This First Edition has the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's tan cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy with an acetate cover protecting the book.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth, US limited edition, first state. J. B. Savage Company, 1938.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ernest Hemingway (1938) The Spanish Earth, US limited edition, published by J. B. Savage Company. Limited edition of 1,000 copies of which this is no. 19. First issue with the F.A.I. (Federación Anarquista Ibérica) banner on the endpaper as called for. Reportedly only 50-100 copies were bound with the flag endpapers before the endpapers were changed into a plain version. Condition: near fine with light shelf wear including a tiny bump to the lower edge. Very scarce at a very attractive price. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$2749.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing soldiers advancing beneath the flag of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica, or F. A. I, one of the pro-Republican belligerents in the Spanish Civil War, that after an estimated 50 to 100 copies were bound (so reported by the publisher in a letter to Hanneman) the endpapers were changed to plain.) Illustrated by Frederick K. Russell, with introduction by Jasper Wood. Small, slim 8vo: 60pp, with 7 full-page original charcoal drawings. Publisher's tan linen cloth, front cover lettered in black and decorated in orange, spine lettered in black, printed throughout in black on tan Linweave paper, absent the original glassine jacket (fresh one added). A superlative copy, covers and spine almost pristine with barest hint of toning; tightly bound text, fresh and bright; superb illustrations. Hanneman A15a. Text of the narration for the sound track that Hemingway contributed to the 1938 film of the same name, about the Spanish Civil War, which broke out in 1936 with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two: a "Republican," or "Loyalist," Spain consisting of the Second Spanish Republic (within which were pockets of revolutionary anarchism and Trotskyism), and a "Nationalist" Spain under the insurgent generals and, eventually, under the leadership of General Francisco Franco. "Late in 1936, while Hemingway was working on To Have and Have Not, the North American Newspaper Alliance offered to hire him to report on the civil war being fought in Spain. The literary fruits of this undertaking, in addition to the news stories Hemingway produced to fulfill his contract, were the script for the narration of a pro-Republic documentary film, The Spanish Earth; a relatively unsuccessful play, The Fifth Column (published with his collected stories as The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories); a handful of short stories about wartime Spain, and his most successful novel in more than a decade, For Whom the Bell Tolls." (Literary Encyclopedia) The Spanish Earth was published by a precocious Cleveland high-school student named Jasper Wood, who was so moved on seeing the film that he convinced Hemingway to allow publication of the text. Fewer than a hundred copies were bound (this first issue is a notable Hemingway rarity) before Wood made the change to plain tan end papers (the second issue). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.. The Spanish Earth.. J. B. Savage, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 60 pp. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, in the original glassine wrapper and preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding clamshell box. First (limited) edition, first issue with F. A. I. banner on the endsheets. No. 135 of 1,000 copies. Hanneman A 15 A A fine copy in the original patterned glassine wrapper, which has some chipping but is largely intact. The proper glassine is uncommon.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Ernest Hemingway. The Spanish Earth (first issue binding with F.A.I. endpaper). J.B. Savage, 1938.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland: J.B. Savage Co., 1938. First edition, limited copy numbered 101 out of 1000, first issue with the F.A.I. bannered endpapers. Original pictorial tan cloth lettered in black and decorated in orange. Illustrated. Slim 8vo. Fine. This is the rare first issue with the decorative F.A.I. bannered endpapers that was published by a Cleveland high school student named Jasper Wood, who was so moved on seeing the film that he convinced Hemingway to allow publication of the text. Approximately 50 to 100 copies of this first issue were ever produced; the second issue had dropped the decorative endpapers and replaced it with plain tan endpapers with a statement printed on the rear pastedown.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Hemingway, Ernest. THE SPANISH EARTH. The J.B. Savage Company, Cleveland, 1938.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited first edition, one of less than 100 copies in the rare first issue with F.A.I. endpapers, of Hemingway's narration of the film THE SPANISH EARTH, produced to raise funds for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. This book was produced in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, while Hemingway was working as a correspondent in the war zone - experience that would become formative for one of his most acclaimed novels, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, set during the same conflict. When Hemingway was sent one of his early copies, he immediately wrote the publisher asking that the endpapers, depicting the banner of the Federacion Anarquista Iberica, be changed: "Hemingway informed [the publisher] of the peril that the association of the F.A.I. banner and his name potentially place him so long as he worked in Spain" (Grissom 204). The second issue copies have plain endpapers, with Hemingway's objection to the FAI endpapers noted at the rear. Only 50 to 100 copies have the F.A.I. endpapers, making this edition - the sole edition published - rarely seen in the first issue, let alone in the original glassine. An elusive Hemingway collectible and a compelling artifact reflecting the contemporary American perception of the Spanish Civil War. 7.5'' x 5.25''. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in orange with black lettering. In original glassine. Orange pictorial "F.A.I." endpapers. 60 pages. Housed in custom quarter blue goatskin clamshell box. Book beautiful. Glassine very good plus, with moderate wear to edges and a bit of shallow loss at bottom edge, overall remarkably intact.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Spanish Earth (First Edition, first issue). J B Savage Company, 1938.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the F.A.I. First Issue endpapers, the second issue has blank endpapers. This book was limited to 1000 numbered copies. The book is in excellent condition with only a hint of wear to the edges. The binding is tight, and the pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. It appears the book was unread. Overall, a stunning copy in collector's condition. We buy Hemingway First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.