Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. Introduced by David Garnett. Spine a little toned, light soiling on the boards, a near very good copy lacking the dust jacket. The author's first novel. Written by Hemingway as a pastiche of the work of Sherwood Anderson. Horace Liveright, who published both authors, declined to publish this book, which he justly supposed would be an insult to Anderson, his best-selling author. This circumstance gave Hemingway the convenient excuse he needed to break his contract with Liveright, so that he could sign with Scribner's, and avail himself of the services of their editor Maxwell Perkins.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 173 pages. In Very Good Minus condition. Bound in yellow cloth with blue text. Lacking issued dust jacket. Boards have mild edgewear and shelfwear and mild bending to edges. Textblock has light uneven toning and slight writing in pencil on rear pastedown. Shelved Case 13. 1370820. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published in Great Britain, 1933. Some foxing at the beginning and end of the book and to page edges, else very good in publishers yellow cloth with blue lettering on the spine which is very slightly marked and dusty. The dustwrapper is foxed and very slightly chipped along the top edges, dustwrapper spine is yellowed and slightly water marked. Not price clipped. Still a pretty good copy. 173 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring. Jonathan Cape, 1933.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition, first printing of Hemingway's first novel and third published book, preceded by the US edition in 1926. With an introduction by David Garnett. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Publisher's original yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue; pp. 173. Binding remains sturdy and square, spine and rear board toned, foxing to bottom edge of text block, scattered foxing internally else quite clean. Jacket is unclipped and shows tight shelfwear, with toning to spine and back panel, protected in archival mylar.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$699.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Yellow cloth with blue spine lettering. Slight darkening of spine and extremities. Gentle bump to fore edge. PO name to ffep. Front board bows very slightly. Lightly toned jacket in mylar with 5s price has tape at interior spine foot and closed tear along gutter, through about half of the spine length, loss at spine head and edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$820.91 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, some mild and generally inoffensive foxing (mainly marginal) as often with this title; pale yellow cloth, backstrip letterd in blue, covers and top mildly dust-soiled, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped, very lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. Hanneman A37a.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Hemingway (Ernest). The Torrents of Spring.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$987.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s. The first UK edition of Hemingway's first long work, a satirical treatment of pretentious writers; here with an introduction by David Garnett. Light staining to lower fore-corners of cloth; dust-jacket slightly rubbed, some minor spotting, spine tanned.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.27 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 173 pages. Introduction by David Garnett, which does not appear in the American edition of 1926. Original yellow cloth lettered in blue.Spine and cover edges a little darkened as usual. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper lightly tanned at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.. The Torrents of Spring.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Introduced by David Garnett. 173 pp. 8vo, publisher's gold cloth in dust jacket. First UK edition. Slight foxing to fore-edge and top edge; small bookseller's ticket at bottom of front pastedown; else a very good copy with slight fading to the yellow cloth on the spine. The jacket has a stain from a piece of removed tape on the verso at the top of the spine (not visible on recto) and is price-clipped. The jacket is unchipped; it has very slight browning and two slight wrinkles to the backstrip.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.