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    Fine Printed Books and Literary Manuscripts

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    10 December 1999

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    • HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in th
    Lot 196

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Scribner's, 1954.

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    USD 2,760

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    USD 3,000 - USD 4,000

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    HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Scribner's, 1954.

    8o (235 x 165 mm). Illustrated with photographs. Original black cloth (covers a bit soiled and rubbed, wear at ends of spine and fore-corners, front inner hinge tender).

    PRESENTATION COPY of Hemingway's classic work on bullfighting, inscribed by him to Dr. George Saviers and his wife in blue ink on front free endpaper: "To George and Pat best love Pamplona, Burgos, Malaga, Valencia and many other places. Papa. 1959" (referring mainly to the fiestas they attended during "the dangerous summer" of 1959).

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