60 Great Books Bauman Rare Books - 40 - “Real War Is Never Like Paper War”: Very Rare First Printings Of Hemingway’s “Voyage To Victory”, 1944 38. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Voyage to Victory. An Eye-Witness Report of the Battle for a Normandy Beachhead. New York, 1944. Octavo, staple-bound as issued, original printed yellow paper wrappers, dust jacket; pp.12, custom chemise and three-quarter morocco slipcase. $75,000. Very rare first separate printing of Hemingway’s account of “a battle for a Normandy beachhead” in 1944, certainly one of the rarest items in any Hemingway collection. Although Hemingway was loathe to have his journalistic pieces placed alongside his fiction, his reportorial work clearly was a great influence on his fiction, with episodes and sometimes language being used in later fiction. His work for Collier’s in 1944 was at a time when his marriage to Martha Gellhorn was unraveling in part because of the amount of time she was spending in Europe reporting from the front. “From his hospital bed, where he had been confined for five days by a head wound suffered in a London automobile accident, Collier’s correspondent Ernest Hemingway boarded an attack transport on the eve of D-Day—despite the protests of his doctors. This is a report of what he saw the next morning, while taking part in the bloody assault on a Normandy beach.” “The first of six dispatches which Hemingway sent from England and France during World War II” (Hanneman C330), “Voyage to Victory” was released by Collier’s in this very fragile separate printing as a promotional piece. Hanneman A21, C330. Two tiny closed tears to dust jacket front panel. A beautiful copy, most rare.
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