Hemingway, Ernest

Estimate

8,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
paper,ink

8vo. Original red-lettered cloth in illustrated first issue dust jacket; spine ends rubbed, offsetting from removed bookplate to endpapers, a few chips from jacket extremities. Half morocco case.

Literature

Hanneman A4a

Catalogue Note

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to his father-in-law, James Richardson, "To James Richardson, This lyric study of life in North Ernest Hemingway"

Though signed to his first wife's father, by the time the book was presented Hemingway's marriage to Hadley was crumbling if not over. She was to divorce him after five years of marriage and expatriate life in Paris the same year Torrents was published. The catalyst for their break was his affair with Pauline Pfeifer, who the author was to marry within a year.

Given the print run of just 1250 copies (it was mostly a parody of Sherwood Anderson and submitted as much to test Scribner's as anything else), examples of this, his first novel are more difficult to find inscribed and hardly ever turn up inscribed to such a personally significant recipient.