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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Imet' i Ne Imet'. Moscow: Goslitizdat 1938. 12mo, original blue cloth, printed paper label on front cover, spine lettered in purple, rear cover blind-stamped, front inner hinge cracked between title-leaf and first text page with small tear at gutter of title-leaf, long hole at rear inner hinge. First Russian Edition of To Have and Have Not, translated by E. Kalashnikova, foreword by I. Anisimov, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Hemingway to Virginia Viertel on the front free endpaper (both front and rear endpapers are maps of the Caribbean region): "For Jigie from Papa with much love. ABAHA GOYNO"; next to abaha (Havana) on the map Hemingway has drawn an "X" within a circle. Hanneman D290. An unusual edition of Hemingway to find inscribed. See following lot for note on "Jigie" Viertel and her relationship with Hemingway.