Lot 516
Hemingway, Ernest
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
The fifth column and the 40 first short stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First British edition, green cloth, dustwrapper, cloth slightly faded and soiled, dustwrapper price-clipped with some rubbing and loss to spine; [Idem] A farewell to arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, black cloth with bronze-coloured labels to upper cover and spine, without dustwrapper; [Idem] The old man and the sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First British edition, 8vo, blue printed cloth, dustwrapper, previous owner's signature to front free-endpaper, some fading to spine and covers, dustwrapper not price-clipped but a little faded and chipped with partial loss to spine; [Idem] Winner take nothing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition, 8vo, black cloth with bronze-coloured label to upper cover and spine, some internal spotting, bookseller's stamp to final paste-down endpaper, spine a little faded and frayed, label to spine chipped, without dustwrapper; [Idem] In our time. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First British edition, 8vo, blue cloth, a little spotting to initial and final few pages, some rubbing and fading to covers, without dustwrapper; [Idem] Across the river and into the trees. London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. First British edition, 8vo, green cloth, dustwrapper, previous owner's signature to front free-endpaper, spine a little faded, dustwrapper not price-clipped but a little creased, chipped and rubbed; [Idem] A moveable feast. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First British edition, 8vo, red cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped and a little faded and soiled; [Idem] The sun also rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926[?] First edition? but later imprint with no date on titlepage, 8vo, black cloth with bronze-coloured labels to upper cover and spine, some slight internal spotting, a couple of gift inscriptions to front free-endpaper, covers and labels slightly rubbed and faded; and 8 others (16)