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[HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.] Cosmopolitan, March 1939. 4to, original pictorial wrappers, front cover detached, spine a bit chipped, cloth folding case. Contains the first appearance of Hemingway's "Nobody Ever Dies," a short story about a "returned Spanish Civil War veteran who is hunted down and killed in Havana" (Hanneman C314), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author at the beginning of the story on p. 29: "Dear Jane: Thanks for the loan of your upper porch for the story. Ernest Hemingway" (the first paragraph of the story mentions the "upper porch" from which one could see the sea). The recipient Jane Armstrong and her husband Richard were close friends of Hemingway's in the '30s; Richard Armstrong was head of the International News Service in Havana; Jane typed Green Hills of Africa for Hemingway (see lot ###) and their daughter Phyllis typed For Whom the Bell Tolls.
[With:] A photograph of Jane and Richard Armstrong sitting and drinking on their "upper porch" mentioned in the story, with the sea and Morro Castle in the background, inscribed to their daughter Phyllis on New Year's Day 1932 from "Daddy & Mother," 7 x 5 inches, in special compartment in above folding case. (2)
[With:] A photograph of Jane and Richard Armstrong sitting and drinking on their "upper porch" mentioned in the story, with the sea and Morro Castle in the background, inscribed to their daughter Phyllis on New Year's Day 1932 from "Daddy & Mother," 7 x 5 inches, in special compartment in above folding case. (2)