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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
8o. Original black cloth, front cover and spine labels (cloth a bit faded, spine labels a little worn); dust jacket (worn). (Some light browning and spotting, a few marginal wormholes.) Provenance: Charles Thompson (presentation inscription). This lot and the following 6 lots were acquired directly from the Thompson estate by the present owner in 1984.
Ninth printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS LONG-TERM FISHING AND HUNTING FRIEND, CHARLES THOMPSON on the front free endpaper: "To Charles Thompson from his friend Ernest Hemingway Key West 1928."
Hemingway and Thompson met in April of 1928, when the Hemingways (Ernest and his very pregnant second-wife Pauline) were on a five-week vacation in Key West. Hemingway had never been to Key West before, but had heard much about it from John Dos Passos. Thompson's family owned a variety of island businesses, including a cigar box factory, a hardware store, and a fishing tackle shop, and he was recommended to teach Hemingway how to fish for tarpon and red snapper. Together with Thompson's wife Lorine, the two couples began a long-term friendship which lasted throughout both couples' lives. The Hemingway's returned to Key West later in 1928, while he was working on A Farewell to Arms, and when it is likely this copy was inscribed to Thompson. The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway's second novel (preceded five months by the parody The Torrents of Spring), and the one he thought a better representative for presentation to his new friend.
In December 1933, the Hemingways and Thompson and his wife Lorine departed for Nairobi, where their safari would become the basis for Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa, in which Thompson is the model for the character "Karl" in the story. The Hemingways made Key West their home until their relationship fell apart in the late '30s, after meeting Martha Gellhorn and setting off to cover the Spanish civil war. Following their divorce, Pauline and the children continued to live in the Key West house while Hemingway moved to the large rambling estate outside Havana, "La Finca Vigia." A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
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Ninth printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS LONG-TERM FISHING AND HUNTING FRIEND, CHARLES THOMPSON on the front free endpaper: "To Charles Thompson from his friend Ernest Hemingway Key West 1928."
Hemingway and Thompson met in April of 1928, when the Hemingways (Ernest and his very pregnant second-wife Pauline) were on a five-week vacation in Key West. Hemingway had never been to Key West before, but had heard much about it from John Dos Passos. Thompson's family owned a variety of island businesses, including a cigar box factory, a hardware store, and a fishing tackle shop, and he was recommended to teach Hemingway how to fish for tarpon and red snapper. Together with Thompson's wife Lorine, the two couples began a long-term friendship which lasted throughout both couples' lives. The Hemingway's returned to Key West later in 1928, while he was working on A Farewell to Arms, and when it is likely this copy was inscribed to Thompson. The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway's second novel (preceded five months by the parody The Torrents of Spring), and the one he thought a better representative for presentation to his new friend.
In December 1933, the Hemingways and Thompson and his wife Lorine departed for Nairobi, where their safari would become the basis for Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa, in which Thompson is the model for the character "Karl" in the story. The Hemingways made Key West their home until their relationship fell apart in the late '30s, after meeting Martha Gellhorn and setting off to cover the Spanish civil war. Following their divorce, Pauline and the children continued to live in the Key West house while Hemingway moved to the large rambling estate outside Havana, "La Finca Vigia." A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.