Hemingway, Ernest

8vo. Title vignette by Ceonike Damianakes. Original black cloth with printed gold paper labels in original illustrated dust jacket after the Damianakes design; spine label very slightly rubbed, jacket with short closed tear to upper margin of front panel, light rubbing, some minor chips from spine panel of jacket, but a wholly unrestored example of a book most often found overly restored . Morocco folding case.

Hanneman A6a; Connolly 50

First edition, first issue. An unrestored copy

"The Sun also Rises.... soon became a handbook for conduct for the new generation.. It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and it is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term of apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six..." (Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering).