The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth first printing with Scribner's A and seal. Corner wear, spine sunned, spine ends lightly frayed, slight soil to cloth. PO bookplate, rear hinge cracked, glue darkened at eps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33096
- Title
- The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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- Cracked
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Sunned
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