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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
8o. Original gilt-decorated black cloth; dust jacket (chipped with a piece missing from head of spine panel); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: John H. Mackey (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "To John H. Mackey wishing him much good luck Ernest Hemingway."
Death in the Afternoon, published when Hemingway was in his early thirties, "represents the author at his best, first as a writer and second as someone who was never satisfied with knowing only a little about his subject but who always dug deeply until he had both the essence and the smallest details" (Charles M. Oliver, Ernest Hemingway A to Z. New York, 1999, p. 74). In the note at the end, Hemingway writes the book is "intended as an introduction to the modern Spanish bullfight [and] attempts to explain that spectacle both emotionally and practically." Hemingway's classic study of bullfighting-his first book length work of non-fiction-is considered to be the best book on the subject by a non-Spaniard. Another presenation copy to Mackey of Death in the Afternoon (inscription dated 1934) sold at auction in 1995. Hanneman A10a.
8o. Original gilt-decorated black cloth; dust jacket (chipped with a piece missing from head of spine panel); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: John H. Mackey (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "To John H. Mackey wishing him much good luck Ernest Hemingway."
Death in the Afternoon, published when Hemingway was in his early thirties, "represents the author at his best, first as a writer and second as someone who was never satisfied with knowing only a little about his subject but who always dug deeply until he had both the essence and the smallest details" (Charles M. Oliver, Ernest Hemingway A to Z. New York, 1999, p. 74). In the note at the end, Hemingway writes the book is "intended as an introduction to the modern Spanish bullfight [and] attempts to explain that spectacle both emotionally and practically." Hemingway's classic study of bullfighting-his first book length work of non-fiction-is considered to be the best book on the subject by a non-Spaniard. Another presenation copy to Mackey of Death in the Afternoon (inscription dated 1934) sold at auction in 1995. Hanneman A10a.