Lot 115
  • 115

Hemingway, Ernest

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • ink and paper
A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner's, 1929

8vo (7 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 186 x 188 mm). Publisher's black cloth with printed gold labels; fine,  bright and unrubbed. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Cleonike (first issue with "Katherine"  spelling on front flap); trace of rubbing to spine ends and along top edge of rear panel, but a lovely and wholly unrestored example with the spine panel unfaded.

Provenance

Gindi-Weiner Copy (Christie's New York 17 May, 1996, lot 85)

Literature

Hanneman A8a; Connolly 60

Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue, inscribed by the author " To CW Meyers Jr. / with very best wishes / Ernest Hemingway."