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Winner Take Nothing

by Hemingway, Ernest

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1933, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) 244pp. Very good in fair dust jacket. 12mo. Smooth black cloth boards. Gold paper labels to spine and top board, lettered and ruled in black. Boards rubbed, spot of superficial cloth loss at centre of front hinge (about the size of a pencil eraser). Top edge coloured red. Dust jacket rubbed, chipped at extremities, age toned; NOT price clipped (showing $2.00), mylar protected. Previous owner's dated signature at head of first blanco. Text block tight, bright, and clean; free of foxing or marginalia. True first printing (after salesmen samples) with the Scribner's "A" and seal on the copyright page. An uncommon true first edition in unclipped jacket. Hemingway's third collection of stories, marking the first appearance of six of the fourteen stories. Baker p.142. Hanneman A12a..

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
Spafford Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
105949
Title
Winner Take Nothing
Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Keywords
American Literature, Hemingway, Literature, Literature - America, Short Stories

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