TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition, First Printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt over green on the spine and with a facsimile of Hemingway’s signature in gilt on the upper cover, in the gold and black printed dustjacket. [8], 262 pp. A fine and unusually well preserved and clean copy. The book appears to have been left unread, the cloth and labels and gilt-work all in superb condition, tight, strong, square and unusual in this fine state of presentation. The dustjacket near fine with minimal evidence of age, and with only light creasing or rubbing or wear at the tips. FIRST EDITION , FIRST ISSUE IN EXEMPLARY CONDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. A Hemingway classic about smuggling in Cuba and The Keys. ‘Harry Morgan, with whose life this novel is entirely concerned, is perhaps the most completely real masculine figure that Ernest Hemingway ever created. Morgan is a native of Key West--that paradise of the “haves” and purgatory of the “have nots.” In his fast boat he takes folks out fishing and runs rum, guns and sometimes human contraband. His life is a lonely struggle to keep himself, his wife, and daughters away from the edge of the “have not” category.’ Now RARE in the original dustjacket in such fine condition.