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Ernest Hemingway. Winner Take Nothing. Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Price: US$86.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1934. First Edition. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with black lettering. Moderate foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Name plate to front paste down. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and soiling to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Ernest Hemingway. Winner Take Nothing. Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Price: US$86.36 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1934. First Edition. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with black lettering. Some brown stains (approx. 2cm) to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's pencil inscription to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 5mm) and crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with staining (max. approx. 2cm), soiling and other marks across the boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
hemingway,ernest. winner take nothing. jonathan cape 1934, 1934.
Price: US$98.34 + shipping
Description: third impression Gewicht in Gramm: 550 deutliche äußere gebrauchsspuren,innen sauber
Seller: Antiquariat Walter Nowak, göttingen, Germany
Ernest Hemingway. Winner Take Nothing. Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The scarcest of the UK editions of Hemingway's books, this copy from the library of the writer Christopher Dilke, with the handsome C.W.Dilke bookplate designed by Reynolds Stone. The two men were friends. Both had homes in Dorset not far from Bridport, where this book is being sold. Reynolds Stone designed bookplates for many well-known figures, such as the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III). This copy of Winner Take Nothing has numerous minor flaws, but it is a very evocative edition. The lettering on the front and spine is very 1930s, and the yellow boards are made of an appealing fabric and colour. Cape went through a phase of specifying production details, and in this case the cloth - "fast to light and washable" - was made by Morton Sundour Fabrics Ltd. "Sundour" could be a perfect name for the yellow as it now is. Anyway, there are 14 stories inside, nicely laid out on good quality paper (made by John Dickinson & Co. Ltd). It's a book that's obviously been read and handled and enjoyed. There is some spotting to the pages throughout and around the edges of the pages when viewed as a block. It's still well-bound - the front and back hinges are notably sound - but between the different sections of the book (the signatures) - there is usually some exposure down the gutter. One of the photos of the text has been chosen to show an instance of this. Some signatures - for example, M, P, and Q - are not like this, but it's important to give a proper impression of a book. In the bottom left hand corner of the inside front cover there are five small patches where the yellow board is showing through, the bottom corner of the front endpaper directly opposite has some marks of thinning to the paper if you look very closely. Externally, as other photos show, there is some fraying at the bottom of the spine, and a bit less at the top. There's part of what looks like a glass or cup mark on the back, and there are various other marks of shelter and handling. No dust-jacket. All in all, still a good copy, in a form very redolent of its time - 1934.
Seller: Hudston Books, Bridport, DORSE, United Kingdom
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). Winner take nothing. London : Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Price: US$303.84 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Patients' Library at Haslar Hospital with its lending library bookplate. Physical description; 1 p., [1]-250 p., 2. ; 19.2 cm. Subjects; Ernest Hemingway. 20th century fiction. Genre; Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). Winner take nothing. London : Jonathan Cape, 1934.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Patients' Library at Haslar Hospital with its lending library bookplate. Physical description; 1 p., [1]-250 p., 2. ; 19.2 cm. Subjects; Ernest Hemingway. 20th century fiction. Genre; Novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First UK printing. Stated at copyright page: "First Published 1934". One of Hemingway's most rare trade editions. Mustard cloth boards, black cover and spine titles with Jonathan Cape emblem at back, moderate shelf wear, some rub, discoloration. Pages generally good; some w/varying discoloration to interior and exterior text block. Number "76" penned at front blank endpaper. Bind good, moderate cant; back hinge reinforced. Preserved in facsimile of rare British first edition dust wrapper, fine; protected in new clear sleeve. Rare solid first edition in fine facsimile wrapper. Ernest Hemingway's third collection of short stories and first new book of fiction since the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been previously published. Characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in western USA. Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and excelled in this medium with this selection revealing some of his best. Printed in Great Britain in the City of Bedford at the Alden Press. Paper made by John Dickinson & Co., Ltd. Bound by A. W. Main & Co. Ltd. in Cloth, Fast to Light and Washable, Made by Morton Sundour Fabrics, Ltd. 250 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Hemingway (Ernest). Winner Take Nothing. Jonathan Cape, London, 1934.
Price: US$991.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, price obscured by ink. Hemingway's third collection of stories, six of which are first appearances. Some minor marking to cloth, but overall very good; jacket browned at spine, some creasing and rubbing.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Hemingway, Ernest.. Winner Take Nothing.. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English Edition, First Impression. First state binding with publisher's logo in black on rear cover. A Fine copy in goldenrod linen cloth stamped in black, lower edge untrimmed, in a Fine cream paper dustwrapper, printed in faint peach and black, not price-clipped. Fore-edge very slightly spotted. Spine of jacket slightly faded, one tiny tear to top front spinefold. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Grissom A12.2.a. 14 short stories. One of the least common Cape Hemingway editions. Nobel Prize winner. Q15454
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.