A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ernest%2520Hemingway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernest Hemingway's</a> To Have and Have Not.<ul><li>Ernest Hemingway (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Charles Scribner's Sons,&nbsp;1937.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in black cloth in dust jacket.</li></ul> Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, To Have and Have Not portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s, and provides a social commentary on that time and place. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers describes the novel as heavily influenced by the Marxist ideology Hemingway was exposed to by his support of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War while he was writing it. The novel had its origins in two short stories published earlier in periodicals by Hemingway ("One Trip Across" and "The Tradesman's Return") which make up the opening chapters, and a novella, written later, which makes up about two-thirds of the book. The narrative is told from multiple viewpoints, at different times, by different characters, and the characters' names are frequently supplied under the chapter headings to indicate who is narrating that chapter.

To Have and Have Not (First Edition, First Printing)

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;query=Hemingway&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hemingway</a>'s legendary first published book, and among the rarest of his <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first editions</a>.<ul><li>Ernest Hemingway (American).</li><li>[Paris]: (Contact Publishing Co.), (1923).</li><li>&nbsp;[8], 58, [2] pages.</li><li>Original blue printed wrappers, uncut and partially unopened.</li><li>Housed in custom blue cloth slipcase and chemise.</li></ul> The typography and design of Hemingway's first book reflected the new Modernist style for which Hemingway would become known: spare, balanced, striking. In this as in his prose, Hemingway was influenced by Gertrude Stein, who advised a careful pick of typeface for the titles listed on the front wrapper, "good and black, but not squatty like the others" (quoted in Grissom, 26). Three Stories And Ten Poems was issued by Robert McAlmon's formative Modernist press, Contact, one of the original loci of the burgeoning movement. McAlmon also brought out numerous other classic expatriate texts, including Stein's epic monument The Making Of Americans, William Carlos Williams's Spring And Fall, Gertrude Beasley's cult feminist memoir My First Thirty Years, Bryher's pioneering autobiographical lesbian novel Two Selves, and H.D.'s Palimpsest — though it was this Hemingway book that would ultimately become the most famous of all its publications. Poorly constructed and issued in an edition of only 300 copies, Three Stories And Ten Poems has become one of the most sought rarities of the 20th century and a cornerstone for any collection that documents the rise of Modernism.

Three Stories And Ten Poems

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ernest%2520Hemingway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ernest Hemingway's</a> Winner Take Nothing.<ul><li>Ernest Hemingway (American).</li><li>New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.</li><li>244 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Contains 14 short stories, including "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."</li><li>Bound in original black cloth with gold paper labels, top edge red, with dustjacket.</li></ul> Winner Take Nothing is a collection of short stories; its first edition print run was only 20,000 copies.

Winner Take Nothing (First Edition, First Printing)

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