Description: Author: Ernest Hemingway Title: The Hemingway Reader A Wide-Ranging Selection Publisher: Scribner’s, NY Date: 1953 Edition: First Edition Size: 8vo Format: Hardcover in jacket Pages: 652 Selected with a foreword and twelve brief prefaces by Charles Poore First edition [with an "A" code to the copyright page, the publisher's 1" Scribners/lamp design blind stamp to the rear board, errata slip present between pages 86 and 87, no book club trademark/statement to the front flap of the Dust Wrapper]. This first printing reportedly consisted of 15,850 copies. Brownish ["rust" colored] cloth with gold gilt lettering/decoration, 652 pages collecting two complete novels [The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises] plus selections from five other novels and from two works on Spain and Africa plus eleven short stories [including the first book appearance of "The Fable of the Good Lion"]. Condition: 1953 gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Binding cracked 650 and 651 with very light bumping to the spine ends] in unevenly toned and lightly chipped price clipped jacket. Presumed first issue without "printed in the U.S.A. and 005" on the rear flap, with tearing/creasing to the upper left corner of the rear panel. See photos. 864030/LR1/3
Price: 50 USD
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
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Year Printed: 1953
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Classics
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Place of Publication: New York
Hemingway Collection: first editions
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
