Winner Take Nothing. by Hemingway, Ernest - 1933

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition of Hemingway's classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To D. White best wishes always Ernest Hemingway." Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom clamshell box. One of the rarest Hemingway titles to find signed and inscribed. Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway's imagination. As an introduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes he developed at greater length in his novels, it is a stunningly successful collection.