Lot 154
  • 154

Hemingway, Ernest

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

Across the River and into the Trees. New York: Scribner's, 1950



In 8s (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in; 210 x 144 mm). Original black cloth; spine faded, a white stain on rear cover, binding slightly askew from this copy having been read.

Literature

Hanneman A23a; Oliver, Hemingway A to Z, p. 333

Condition

Across the River and into the Trees. New York: Scribner's, 1950 In 8s (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in; 210 x 144 mm). Original black cloth; spine faded, a white stain on rear cover, binding slightly askew from this copy having been read.
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Catalogue Note

First American edition, following the English by three days. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway to Gene Tunney in ink on the front free endpaper: "To Gene with much affection and solid admiration always. Ernest."  In the novel Tunney is thought about by the protagonist Richard Cantwell because the boxer had once said that he had read Shakespeare's King Lear