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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
8o. Frontispiece by Juan Gris; numerous photographic plates. Original publisher's black cloth; dust jacket (some very minor wear at edges, slight discoloration on verso, otherwise fine); quarter brown pigskin slipcase. Provenance: Charles K. Jackson (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "For Charles K. Jackson Esq. With the very best wishes of Ernest Hemingway September 1932."
Death in the Afternoon was published when Hemingway was in his early thirties and living in Key West with Pauline in a two-story white stone residence on Whitehead Street. The book "represents the author at his best, first as a writer and second as someone who was never satisfied with knowing only a little about his subject but who always dug deeply until he had both the essence and the smallest details" (Charles M. Oliver, Ernest Hemingway A to Z. New York, 1999, p. 74). In the printed author's note at the end, Hemingway writes the book is "intended as an introduction to the modern Spanish bullfight [and] attempts to explain that spectacle both emotionally and practically." Hemingway's classic study of bullfighting--his first book-length work of non-fiction--is considered to be the best book on the subject by a non-Spaniard. Hanneman A10a.
8o. Frontispiece by Juan Gris; numerous photographic plates. Original publisher's black cloth; dust jacket (some very minor wear at edges, slight discoloration on verso, otherwise fine); quarter brown pigskin slipcase. Provenance: Charles K. Jackson (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "For Charles K. Jackson Esq. With the very best wishes of Ernest Hemingway September 1932."
Death in the Afternoon was published when Hemingway was in his early thirties and living in Key West with Pauline in a two-story white stone residence on Whitehead Street. The book "represents the author at his best, first as a writer and second as someone who was never satisfied with knowing only a little about his subject but who always dug deeply until he had both the essence and the smallest details" (Charles M. Oliver, Ernest Hemingway A to Z. New York, 1999, p. 74). In the printed author's note at the end, Hemingway writes the book is "intended as an introduction to the modern Spanish bullfight [and] attempts to explain that spectacle both emotionally and practically." Hemingway's classic study of bullfighting--his first book-length work of non-fiction--is considered to be the best book on the subject by a non-Spaniard. Hanneman A10a.