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London : Jonathan Cape , 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Patients' Library at Haslar Hospital with its lending library bookplate. Physical description; 1 p., [1]-250 p., 2. ; 19.2 cm. Subjects; Ernest Hemingway. 20th century fiction. Genre; Novel.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Recent black full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, gilt border to sides, author's signature blocked in gilt to front cover, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed. With the original black cloth upper cover and spine bound in at rear. Heavy text paper with the expected toning else a fine copy in a handsome modern binding. A collection of acclaimed short stories. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and he always excelled in that medium. This volume reveals him at his best - the characters and backgrounds are widely varied: "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar; "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant; and "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is set in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title panels, top edge tinted red, and the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Some overall toning, bookplate to pastedown, top edge a little sunned, jacket with some edge wear, neat tear to rear. A very good copy. A collection of acclaimed short stories. Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and he always excelled in that medium. This volume reveals him at his best - the characters and backgrounds are widely varied: "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar; "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant; and "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is set in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States.