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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.
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."