The Sun Also Rises (Modern Library #170.1, in Toledano Spine 7) by HEMINGWAY, Ernest - [ca.1944]

New York: The Modern Library. Good in Good dust jacket. [ca.1944]. Hardcover. A scarce, early Modern Library reprint edition of Ernest Hemingway's first full-length novel. This work made both him, and bullfighting in Pamplona, Spain, famous. With an introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. --- In Toledano spine 7: full green balloon cloth-covered limp boards, gilt lettering and decorations on cover and spine, and with green topstain. With orange Kent endpapers, jacket style f, verso lists 242 titles in Mod. Lib. catalog. Jacket with Wuyts cover illustration. Likely published c.1936 (though 1926 date appears in the book). ML #170.1. --- With light fraying to cloth at edges, small brown discolored area at head of spine and faded topstain, otherwise volume is firm, clean and unmarked. Back of dust jacket has been re-attached to front and back with tape by a prior owner; with chips & tears to edges, darkened spine, original $.95 flap price, and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall) ; ix, 259 pages .