Winner Take Nothing [First Printing] by Hemingway, Ernest - 1933

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First printing with A and Scribner's seal at copyright page. Black coated cloth boards with crisp, bright gold labels at cover and spine, light shelf wear. Deckled pages near fine. Red top-stain. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Preserved in fine facsimile of the original dust jacket with black, red and white design and Laurence Stallings review at back; protected in new, clear sleeve. Very attractive. Rare near fine, true first edition in fine facsimile of first edition 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, and so on. Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and excelled in this medium with this volume revealing him at his best. 244 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.