Three Stories and Ten Poems

by HEMINGWAY, Ernest

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(Paris): Contact. (1923). First Edition. One of 300 copies of this unprepossessing first book, which gave little indication of the author's eventual stature as the dean of American literature and one of the most influential writers of the century. After serving in France during World War I, Hemingway returned to Paris in late 1921 with a job as the European correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star. With a letter of introduction provided by Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway met a number of the expatriate writers living in Paris at the time, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and others. Robert McAlmon, another expatriate writer, had founded the Contact Press by publishing one of his own books in 1922. He arranged to publish Hemingway's poetry and stories even though Hemingway had already delivered the manuscript of In Our Time to William Bird for publication. Because Bird was fitting Hemingway's book into an ongoing series, it was held up at the press for nearly a year. In the meantime, this title was issued by McAlmon's relatively new press, and became Hemingway's first published book. Original wrappers very slightly spotted, but still a crisp, very near fine copy of this fragile volume; partly unopened and thus presumably never read. In custom chemise and clamshell case. .