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The Green Hills of Africa
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
Scribner's, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A near fine first edition, with typical moderate fading of spine and edges of cloth, in a very good first issue dust jacket. Scribner's, 1935. First edition Scribner's A on copyright page. 295pp. with Shenton decorations. 8vo. Original green cloth; gilt lettering on front board; black decorative strips on spine with gilt lettering. In first issue dust jacket (with wider green section on back panel) with original price of $2.75 still on front flap. First edition. Hanneman 13. In discussing the author's challenges in writing this work of non-fiction, Carlos Baker says, "The Green Hills of Africa rises above the status of a 'noble experiment' and becomes in its own right a work of art." [Hemingway/ The Writer as Artist, p.167]. Hemingway's second book of nonfiction, an account of a month-long hunting trip to Africa which he wrote "to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
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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- Bookbid Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106950
- Title
- The Green Hills of Africa
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Date Published
- 1935
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