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THE GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus/Very good plus
- Seller
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Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Inscribed first edition, first printing, in original first state dust jacket. THE GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA Published in 1935; Scribners', New York. "A" on copyright page. Original price of "$2.75" still on front inner flap of dust jacket. CONDITION: Book is in very good plus condition: no problems other than a lightly sunned spine; gold and black print still vibrant. Green cloth covers show some lightening along cloth edges. Dust jacket front and back panels are bright, clean with only minor scratching and edge wear; jacket spine show sunning matching that of the book's spine cloth with printing still highly readable. Ed Hanes, to who this book is inscribed by Hemingway, was an acquaintance Hemingway had met in Key West, Florida. Book has no writing in it other than Ernest Hemingway's inscription to Ed Hanes. EDWARD SHENTON drew decorations and illustrations (the same artist who did the decorations and illustrations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's TENDER IS THE NIGHT). COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL
Synopsis
Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is basically a journal of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: Pursuit and Conversation, Pursuit Remembered, Pursuit and Failure, and Pursuit as Happiness, each of which plays a different role in the story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mt. Gothic Tomes & Colorado Artifactual
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162
- Title
- THE GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
- Author
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- Illustrator
- Edward Shenton
- Format/Binding
- Printed green cloth binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; original edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway first edition, Hemingway inscribed first edition, Hemingway first edition in original dust jacket, Green Hills of Africa Hemingway first edition
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About the Seller
Mt. Gothic Tomes & Colorado Artifactual
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Crested Butte, Colorado
About Mt. Gothic Tomes & Colorado Artifactual
MT. GOTHIC TOMES in conjunction with COLORADO ARTIFACTUAL endeavor to offer only quality, original, and historical books, maps, photographs, journals, business directories, journals, and other similar artifacts. We specialize in the history of Colorado and the American West; however, also delve into literary first editions, especially those of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Ben Hecht; as well as publications centered on quantum physics and chemistry.
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