The Sun Also Rises (Modern Library #170.1) by HEMINGWAY, Ernest - [ca.1944]

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [ca.1944]. Hardcover. Scarce in the Modern Library edition, Ernest Hemingway's first full-length novel made both him, and bullfighting in Pamplona, Spain, famous. With an introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Dust jacket features illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8, w/pale grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks, black topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Likely published c.1950 (though 1926 date appears in book). Jacket style h, verso advertises 347 titles in ML catalog. ML #170.1. --- With dulling to cover title gilding and mildly rounded cover corners; else an unmarked, clean, firm copy. Dust jacket bears original $1.25 flap price, chips to spine ends, small tears to edges and with some rubbing; otherwise bright and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; ix, 259 pages .