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THE FIFTH COLUMN
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good jacket.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition, first printing of this mammoth anthology, including Hemingway's only play and four previously uncollected stories. This anthology leads with Hemingway's play about an American spy in the Spanish Civil War, THE FIFTH COLUMN, but the meat of the collection has always been his short stories. Two of the best of his career, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," appear first in book form here (after their appearances in ESQUIRE and COSMOPOLITAN respectively in 1936). This anthology also collects many of his best short works from the previous collections IN OUR TIME, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN, and WINNER TAKE NOTHING, such as "Big Two-Hearted River" and "Hills Like White Elephants." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth stamped in black and gilt. In original unclipped ($2.75) red and gilt typographic dust jacket designed by Neely. Scribner's A and seal on copyright page. x, 597, [1] pages. Bookshop ticket in gutter of front pastedown. Offsetting in gutters, else book clean with fresh cloth; jacket with mild rubbing, sunned spine, and a couple short closed tears.
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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- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40520
- Title
- THE FIFTH COLUMN
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Theatre,Books to Film
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Sunned
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