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Price: US$22500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Book with spine toned and a faint dampstain to front board. Front inner hinge (now) professionally repaired. Price-clipped dust jacket with spine toned, a large crease running down the front panel, and some chipping and wear at the spine ends and extremities. Inscribed by the author: "For Daisy G. Roe | Wishing her all good luck from her friend Ernest Hemingway. Key West March 18, 1936." The recipient Daisey G. Roe was a Florida neighbor who had recently married up-and-coming politician (and future Jacksonville, Florida mayor) Caulie F. Whitehead. Authentic signed Hemingway material is becoming scarce on the market. Housed in a custom green quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. After publishing Winner Take Nothing in 1933, "Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa. It is the most literary hunting trip on record" (New York Times). Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." It stands as one of his most memorable books set in the continent and, along with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, helped to establish his reputation as a safari-hunter and outdoorsman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HEMINGWAY PRESENTATION COPIES EVER OFFERED FOR SALE: Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to Hadley Hemingway and his son Jack (Bumby), on the dedication page, as Hemingway expands the printed dedication ('To Philip, to Charles, and to Sully') . Hemingway's continuing inscription, entirely in his hand in black ink, reads: 'also to Hadley and Paul and to Bumby with much love from Pauline, Ernest, Patrick. and Gregory, and all of Africa. The lion enclosed under separate cover is the same lion Pauline almost shot on page 40.' To our knowledge, this is the only presentation copy from Ernest to Hadley ever to come on the market. First edition, first printing of this classic Hemingway. Original black cloth stamped in gilt, in original jacket (jacket has a large chip to 'T' in title on spine extending to rear cover, with some other nicks and tears and tape repairs to verso; book has some minor fading in spots and light edge wear). Hanneman A10A (Scribner's seal and 'A' on title page verso; jacket complete with $3.50 price). Color frontispiece by Juan Gris; 81 b/w 'action photographs' on plates. 1 color & 81 b/w Illustrations. Hadley Richardson Hemingway, later Hadley Mowrer (1891-1979), first wife of Ernest Hemingway. As Hemingway later said, Hadley was Ernest Hemingway's greatest and truest love, the woman he betrayed to his everlasting regret. The subject of the recent 'The Paris Wife', she is a figure of enduring public interest. She married a second time, to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Mowrer in 1933, two years before this work was published. We have firm provenance for this book. The true first printing of the first edition in original jacket (green cloth binding has usual fading to spine and edges; minor wear; jacket has fading, nicks and wear from use). Hanneman A13A; with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso. Decorations by Edward Shenton. [8],294,[1] pages.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.