HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924. Tall 8vo, original tan boards with black lettering and publisher's device printed over a collage of red-lettered newspaper items, headlines, and a map on the front cover, uncut, slight wear at ends of spine and front outer joint near heel, a slight crack to upper fore-corner of rear cover, the usual natural discoloration to endpapers; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Hemingway's second book, limited to 170 numbered copies printed on Rives paper (this no. 101), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Dr. Don Carlos Guffey with very best wishes Ernest Hemingway"; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway after Henry Slater. Dr. Guffey was the obstetrician who delivered Patrick and Gregory, the two children of Hemingway's second marriage (to Pauline), by Caesarean section. His collection, the first major gathering of Hemingway to appear at auction, was sold at Parke-Bernet on 14 October 1958. Hanneman A2a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 49. In very good condition.Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 605).

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924. Tall 8vo, original tan boards with black lettering and publisher's device printed over a collage of red-lettered newspaper items, headlines, and a map on the front cover, uncut, slight wear at ends of spine and front outer joint near heel, a slight crack to upper fore-corner of rear cover, the usual natural discoloration to endpapers; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Hemingway's second book, limited to 170 numbered copies printed on Rives paper (this no. 101), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Dr. Don Carlos Guffey with very best wishes Ernest Hemingway"; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway after Henry Slater. Dr. Guffey was the obstetrician who delivered Patrick and Gregory, the two children of Hemingway's second marriage (to Pauline), by Caesarean section. His collection, the first major gathering of Hemingway to appear at auction, was sold at Parke-Bernet on 14 October 1958. Hanneman A2a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 49. In very good condition. Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 605).

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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924. Tall 8vo, original tan boards with black lettering and publisher's device printed over a collage of red-lettered newspaper items, headlines, and a map on the front cover, uncut, slight wear at ends of spine and front outer joint near heel, a slight crack to upper fore-corner of rear cover, the usual natural discoloration to endpapers; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Hemingway's second book, limited to 170 numbered copies printed on Rives paper (this no. 101), PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "To Dr. Don Carlos Guffey with very best wishes Ernest Hemingway"; woodcut frontispiece portrait of Hemingway after Henry Slater. Dr. Guffey was the obstetrician who delivered Patrick and Gregory, the two children of Hemingway's second marriage (to Pauline), by Caesarean section. His collection, the first major gathering of Hemingway to appear at auction, was sold at Parke-Bernet on 14 October 1958. Hanneman A2a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 49. In very good condition.

Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 605).