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The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway in the publisher's first state dust jacket.. Octavo, x, 597pp, [1]. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine over red print. First printing with "Scribner's A" on copyright page. Faint sunning to cloth spine, some rubbing to gilt. Toning to endpapers, no marks or inscriptions. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.75 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine, a few chips to corners and edges of spine. Includes photo of Herbert Matthews and Hemingway observing artillery bursts during the Spanish Civil War on the rear panel. Dust jacket free of restoration. (Grissom A.16.1.a) (Hanneman 16). This collection of short stories from Ernest Hemingway includes The Killers; Hills Like White Elephants; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber; and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14943
- Title
- The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway in the publisher's first state dust jacke
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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