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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
8° (189 x 131mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original black cloth, gold printed labels on upper side and spine, pictorial dust jacket (cloth lightly spotted at the extremities and lower side, endpapers lightly browned, dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and short tears at the extremities); black quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Ernest Hemingway (presentation inscription to:) -- Mary Griathouse.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN A FIRST PRINTING DUST-JACKET, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Mary Griathouse with sincere best wishes. Ernest Hemingway'. According to Connolly, A Farewell to Arms is probably Hemingway's best novel. Upon completing it, Hemingway remarked: 'I've... never felt better or stronger or healthier in the head or body -- nor had better confidence or morale.' The book was both a huge commercial and critical success for Hemingway, with 50,000 copies sold within two months of publication, and despite the stock market crash. Overwhelmingly favourable reviews in America and England helped spread Hemingway's fame widely; 'indeed, a New Yorker 'Profile' by Dorothy Parker on November 30, 1929, may be said to have marked the point at which Hemingway passed beyond mere fame into living legend' (Lynn, p. 391). First issue, without the disclaimer on page [x], in a first printing dust-jacket with two sets of three blurbs on the rear panel. Connolly, The Modern Movement, 60; Grissom A.8.1.a; Hanneman A8a.
8° (189 x 131mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original black cloth, gold printed labels on upper side and spine, pictorial dust jacket (cloth lightly spotted at the extremities and lower side, endpapers lightly browned, dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and short tears at the extremities); black quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Ernest Hemingway (presentation inscription to:) -- Mary Griathouse.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN A FIRST PRINTING DUST-JACKET, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Mary Griathouse with sincere best wishes. Ernest Hemingway'. According to Connolly, A Farewell to Arms is probably Hemingway's best novel. Upon completing it, Hemingway remarked: 'I've... never felt better or stronger or healthier in the head or body -- nor had better confidence or morale.' The book was both a huge commercial and critical success for Hemingway, with 50,000 copies sold within two months of publication, and despite the stock market crash. Overwhelmingly favourable reviews in America and England helped spread Hemingway's fame widely; 'indeed, a New Yorker 'Profile' by Dorothy Parker on November 30, 1929, may be said to have marked the point at which Hemingway passed beyond mere fame into living legend' (Lynn, p. 391). First issue, without the disclaimer on page [x], in a first printing dust-jacket with two sets of three blurbs on the rear panel. Connolly, The Modern Movement, 60; Grissom A.8.1.a; Hanneman A8a.
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