Winner Take Nothing. by HEMINGWAY, Ernest - 1933

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1933. His third and final collection of stories First edition, first printing, first issue jacket (quoting Laurence Stallings's review of "Death in the Afternoon" on rear panel). This collection contains 14 short stories, of which six ("The Light of the World", "A Way You'll Never Be", "The Mother of a Queen", "One Reader Writes", "A Day's Wait", and "Fathers and Sons") were printed here for the first time. The title derives from the epigraph of the book, ostensibly drawn from an antique book of rules for gaming, but actually written by Hemingway himself: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he win far enough, shall there be any reward within himself." Octavo. Original black cloth, gilt title label to spine and front, top edge red. With dust jacket. The book fine, the jacket a little chipped at ends and fore-corners and otherwise a little rubbed along edges, two closed tears to front panel from top and bottom edge and some smaller nicks to edges of rear panel, generally a little toned, still a very good copy, some tape reinforcements to verso. Hanneman A12a.