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"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“The emergence of Hemingway gave the Modern Movement one of its few men of action... No other writer stepped so suddenly into fame, or destroyed with such insouciance so many other writers or ways of writing or became such an immediate symbol of an age.” —Cyril Connolly
Ernest Hemingway exploded onto the literary scene with The Sun Also Rises, his bracing novel about decadent expatriates recovering—along with the rest of Europe—from the wounds inflicted by the First World War. This is one of the two rarest and most desirable dust jackets in 20th-century American literature (the other being his friend and rival F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby). The first-issue dust jacket printed in error the title of Hemingway’s book of short stories as “In Our Times” rather than “In Our Time” on the front panel—later issues corrected this mistake
After this initial success, Hemingway continued to live and even write in the public eye, in Spain, in Key West, on safari in Africa, in Cuba, in Idaho. He was training, as he boldly claimed, to challenge Tolstoy for the heavyweight title. His next novel, A Farewell to Arms, earned tremendous popular and critical success, and is the only one of his works to be issued first as a signed limited edition of 510 signed copies. The dust jacket of the trade edition is also highly sought-after, echoing the Art Nouveau design seen on the jacket for The Sun Also Rises.
  “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.” For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway’s masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War, thrust the author back into the limelight after the middling success of his novel To Have and Have Not and his nonfiction works on the art of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon, and African big-game hunting, The Green Hills of Africa. Scribner’s correctly anticipated that For Whom the Bell Tolls would be a runaway bestseller, and printed many thousands of copies to meet demand. However, fine copies in unrestored dust jackets are becoming increasingly difficult to find—and the red ink on the jacket has often faded to pink or even white, especially along the spine.
 The grizzled sportsman’s stripped-down masterpiece about an old fisherman struggling to bring his epic marlin safely home, The Old Man and the Sea—the last novel Hemingway would publish in his lifetime—won the Pulitzer Prize and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize shortly thereafter. Because he led an increasingly reclusive life in his final years, signed or inscribed copies of this title are much harder to find than earlier works, and can cost two or even three times more than similarly inscribed copies of For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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BOOKS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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A GREAT RARITY AND ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL HEMINGWAY ASSOCIATION COPIES
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. In Our Time. New York, 1925. First edition, a superb association copy, of the first of Hemingway’s books published in the United States, one of only 1335 copies. This copy warmly inscribed by Hemingway to Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith, Hemingway’s hero and first and closest adult friend and the dedicatee of in our time, the earlier collection of short stories that formed the nucleus of In Our Time : “To Chink with Hommages Respectueux from his former A.D.C. [aide-de-camp] and still, with the occasional permission of His Brittanic Majesty, companion—Popplethwaite, Paris, October 1925.” $78,000.
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“THE GERMANS OMITTED THE JOHN DONNE!”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Six novels in translation. Various cities, 1928-1953. Seven volumes altogether. Rare collection of six Hemingway novels in translation, mostly first editions, from the library of Hemingway friend and scholar Fraser Drew with his bookplate, each volume signed or inscribed by Hemingway. Herein is the first German edition of The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta), an advance review copy with laid-in publisher’s slip, signed by Heminway; the first German edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wem die Stunde Schlägt), an advance review copy with laid-in publisher’s materials, inscribed, “For Frazer [sic] Bragg Drew, best wishes always, Ernest Hemingway. (Note how the Germans omitted the John Donne!) EH”; an early French edition of A Farewell to Arms (L’adieu aux armes), inscribed on the half title, “For Frazer [sic] Drew, hoping he has a good trip home, Ernest Hemingway”; the first Latvian edition of A Farewell to Arms (Ardievas lerociem), inscribed on the half title, “For Fraser Bragg Drew, from his friend Ernest Hemingway (Read this for home-work) EH.”: the first Italian edition of The Old Man and the Sea (Il vecchio e il mare), with nine full-page color and black-and-white illustrations and original belly band, inscribed “For Frazer [sic] Drew, ‘Il huovo cafalarioro’ [sic] with pictures of no great value, Ernest Hemingway,” and the two-volume early Italian edition, wrappers, of For Whom the Bell Tolls, inscribed on the half title in the first volume, “For Frazer [sic] Drew, this corny edition, best always, Ernest Hemingway,” and on the half title of the second volume, “For Frazer [sic] Drew: Volume two of For Whom the Bell Tolls with horrible cover. Best luck, Ernest Hemingway. 1955.” This extraordinary collection handsomely housed in a custom box. $45,000.
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SCARCE FIRST ISSUE OF THE SUN ALSO RISES,
INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE, HEMINGWAY’S FIRST WIFE,
HADLEY RICHARDSON
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Sun Also Rises. WITH: Kimmel's Strange Voyage. WITH: Issue of Lost Generation Journal. San Francisco, 1921. First edition, first issue, an extraordinary association copy, inscribed by Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, to author and interviewer Lawrence Broer: “Best wishes to Larry & Kris from one who saw the Sun Also Rise. Sincerely, Hadley R. Mowrer.” Hadley was, of course, the dedicatee of the novel; Broer was a noted Hemingway scholar, who apparently asked Hadley to inscribe his own copy (a second inscription identifies this copy as originally his). Accompanied by Stanley Kimmel’s book of verse and an issue of Lost Generation Journal containing Broer’s signed article on Kimmel. The Kimmels were close friends of the Hemingways in Paris. $25,000.
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“THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR”:
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY,
VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. First edition, first issue, of this classic Hemingway novel, inscribed, “To Ann Louise Clarkson with all good wishes. Ernest Hemingway.” A beautiful copy. $18,500.
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HEMINGWAY’S HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK, SIGNED, DOODLED AND ANNOTATED BY HIM
ARMES, William Dallam, editor. Old English Ballads and Folk Songs. New York, 1912. Ernest Hemingway’s freshman high school textbook “Old English Ballads,” signed twice by him, and with annotations and numerous doodles, including two caricatures of his teacher, Frank James Platt, who is credited with shaping Hemingway’s literary career. $16,500.
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HEMINGWAY’S READING LIST
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed. Ketchum, Idaho, October 27, 1958. Fine autograph letter signed from Hemingway to a bookseller detailing an order of books he would like shipped to him, including Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, a biography of Steven Vincent Benet, and multiple copies of several of his own titles, two of which were out of print at this point in his life. $14,500.
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“THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Rare unrevised proof copy, issued for Book-of-the-Month club judges, almost assuredly predating the first edition. $8500.
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“WE HAVE BEEN SO HAPPY AND HAVING RISKED IT ALL KNOW WHAT IT WAS WE RISKED AND WHAT LONELINESS IS…”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed Letter Signed to Edna Gellhorn. Cuba, 1940. Typed letter from Ernest Hemingway to his future mother-in-law, Edna Gellhorn (the mother of Martha Gellhorn, his third wife), signed: “much love from Ernest.” $8500.
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“THE ESSENCE OF HEMINGWAY”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York and London, 1932. First edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece on bullfighting, in scarce original dust jacket. $5500.
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“AFTER ALL, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, IT IS PROBABLY ONLY INSOMNIA. MANY MUST HAVE IT”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York, 1933. First edition of arguably Hemingway’s finest collection of short stories, in original dust jacket. $5000.
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