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Winner Take Nothing.
by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1933. His last story collection First edition, first printing, first issue jacket (quoting Laurence Stallings's review of "Death in the Afternoon" on rear panel). This title was Hemingway's third and final collection of stories, and 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, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. An assemblage of clipped previous booksellers' listings of the same title loosely inserted. A bright, square copy, spine label marked, top edge foxed. A very good copy indeed in the jacket with rear panel a little toned, extremities rubbed, shallow chips to foot of spine, couple of short closed tears, else bright and sharp. 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
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148692
- Title
- Winner Take Nothing.
- Author
- HEMINGWAY, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Date Published
- 1933
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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