Hemingway, Ernest

In 8s (10 1/8 x 6 1/2; 257 x 165 mm). Woodcut portrait of Hemingway after Henry Strater on verso of half-title. Original tan boards with black lettering and publisher’s device printed over a collage of red-lettered newspaper items, headlines, and a map on the front cover. Usual light offsetting to endpapers; a little rubbing to spine ends and minor bumping to corners of upper cover, spot of rubbing at tail of lower joint, but an unusually attractive copy of a fragile book, housed in an  older quarter morocco folding chemise slipcase.

Hanneman A2; Connolly, The Modern Movement 49

First edition of Hemingway’s second book, limited to 170 numbered copies printed on Rives paper (this is copy 90).

"...in the dry compressed little vignettes of in our time [Hemingway] has almost invented a form of his own... and below its cool objective manner really constitutes a harrowing record of barbarities: you have not only political executions, but criminal hangings, bullfights, assassinations by the police, and all the cruelties and enormities of the war..." (Wilson in his October 1924 Dial review).