Winner Take Nothing [First Edition]
by Hemingway, Ernest
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First printing with A and Scribner's seal at copyright in original wrapper. Very attractive. Black coated cloth boards, bright gold labels at cover and spine, moderate shelf wear, some mottle, areas of toning. Deckled pages very good with attractive toning. Antiquarian signature at front endpaper: "Dudley Fitts". Red top edge. String-bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dudley Fitts was an influential twentieth century poet, translator, and for many years taught at The Choate School and Phillips Academy at Andover. He was well respected for his translations with Robert Fitzgerald of Greek literature which are praised for their clarity and eloquence. Some of his most noted works and translations were: Ten Introductions: A Collection of Modern Verse (1934); The Alcestis of Euripides (1936); One Hundred Poems from the Palatine Anthology in English Paraphrase (1938); The Antigone of Sophocles (1939); Oedipus Rex (1949); The Oedipus Cycle (Oedipus Rex) (1949); The Poetic Nuance." Dust wrapper generally good, some chip, mended closed tears, portions of spine material missing; unclipped 2.00, protected in new clear sleeve. First state in black, red and white with Laurence Stallings "Death in the Afternoon Review" review at back panel. Rare near very good first edition in solid, mostly intact orginal wrapper. Ernest Hemingway's third collection of short stories and first new book of fiction since the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been previously published. Characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in western USA. Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and excelled in this medium with this selection revealing some of his best. 244 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after his most recent novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932).
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021786
- Title
- Winner Take Nothing [First Edition]
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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