HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. In Our Time. Stories. London: Cape [1926]. 8vo, original green cloth, front cover and spine faded, ends of spine worn, small stain on rear cover; half morocco folding case (defective). First English Edition, PRESENTATION COPY of Hemingway's British debut, inscribed by him on front free endpaper: "To Harry Sylvester the big plain clothes Jesuit and molder of champions from his old pal E. (one punch) Hemingway, Heavyweight champion of the Bahamas. Key West 193[6?]"; WITH CORRECTIONS OR ANNOTATIONS BY HEMINGWAY ON SEVEN PAGES in pencil, totalling some 14 words in his hand plus a few proofing marks, and ranging from a comma deletion to a six-word comment: above the story title "Mr. and Mrs. Eliot" he has written, "This all rewritten by Cape's bitches." Harry Sylvester, a graduate of Notre Dame, was a novelist and short story writer who met Hemingway in Key West in the 1930s (see Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, 1st Suppl., New York, 1955); a 1937 letter from Hemingway to him is in Letters, ed. C. Baker, pp. 456-7. Sylvester was apparently present when Wallace Stevens, on a visit to Key West in early 1936, provoked Hemingway into a fight and quickly received a black eye and a badly bruised face (does the inscription make oblique reference to this?). Hanneman A32a.

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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. In Our Time. Stories. London: Cape [1926]. 8vo, original green cloth, front cover and spine faded, ends of spine worn, small stain on rear cover; half morocco folding case (defective). First English Edition, PRESENTATION COPY of Hemingway's British debut, inscribed by him on front free endpaper: "To Harry Sylvester the big plain clothes Jesuit and molder of champions from his old pal E. (one punch) Hemingway, Heavyweight champion of the Bahamas. Key West 193[6?]"; WITH CORRECTIONS OR ANNOTATIONS BY HEMINGWAY ON SEVEN PAGES in pencil, totalling some 14 words in his hand plus a few proofing marks, and ranging from a comma deletion to a six-word comment: above the story title "Mr. and Mrs. Eliot" he has written, "This all rewritten by Cape's bitches." Harry Sylvester, a graduate of Notre Dame, was a novelist and short story writer who met Hemingway in Key West in the 1930s (see Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, 1st Suppl., New York, 1955); a 1937 letter from Hemingway to him is in Letters, ed. C. Baker, pp. 456-7. Sylvester was apparently present when Wallace Stevens, on a visit to Key West in early 1936, provoked Hemingway into a fight and quickly received a black eye and a badly bruised face (does the inscription make oblique reference to this?). Hanneman A32a.