The Sun Also Rises

by HEMINGWAY, Ernest

First Edition

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Book Description

NY: Scribner's. 1926. Hemingway's first major novel and, along with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby which had been published a year earlier, one of the greatest novels of the Lost Generation. Prior to this book, Hemingway had only published short stories and a few poems, and one short novel (The Torrents of Spring) that mocked Sherwood Anderson and in retrospect appears to scholars to have been designed to get him out of his contractual obligations to Boni and Liveright. With this book he set the standard against which he would be measured for the rest of his life. Because he was a young and relatively unknown writer at the time this was published, the first printing was only 5090 copies (three years later, A Farewell to Arms was published with a first printing of 31,050 copies). This is the first issue of the first printing, with the misprint ("stoppped") on page 181 line 26, in the first issue dust jacket with the misprint on the front panel ("In Our Times" vs. "In Our Time"). Two small, attractive bookplates on the front pastedown; near fine in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket with a few small chips and edge tears. A very attractive and presentable copy of one of the high spots of 20th century literature, seldom found in dust jacket at all and even less often in an unrestored dust jacket in collectible condition. The Annette Campbell-White copy brought $120,000 at Sotheby's in 2007. . First Edition. hardcover.

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