HEMINGWAY, ERNEST | The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926

The Property of a Gentleman

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST

The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926

8vo. Publisher's black cloth with gold foil labels in dust-jacket with Cleonike Damianake illustration to front panel (cloth with minor edge wear; unrestored first issue jacket evenly faded with rubbing along folds, minor stain to front panel, small chip at upper edge, some creasing to bottom edge. Half-morocco slipcase. 

First edition, first issue of Hemingway's landmark of modern literature

"...in all this there is nothing that has gone bad and not a word to be changed after so many years. 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, pp. 70-73). 

REFERENCE:

Grissom A6; Hanneman A6; Connolly 50