August 2022 Catalogue

– 33 – A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 “As Sharp As Splinters Of Glass”: First Edition Of Hemingway’s Men Without Women 38. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Men Without Women. New York, 1927. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $18,000. First edition, first issue, of Hemingway’s famed collection of 14 stories, in first-issue dust jacket. A beautiful unrestored copy. The 14 stories in this early collection “are as clear and crisp and perfectly shaped as icicles, as sharp as splinters of glass. It is impossible to read them without realizing that seldom if ever before has a writer been able to cut so deeply into life” (Time). Included are “The Killers,” “Ten Indians,” “Today is Friday” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” First issue, printed on heavy stock (overall weight of 15-1/2 ounces), in first-issue dust jacket, with plain orange bands across the front, and two errors on the front inner flap. Bookseller ticket. Book fine, dust jacket with minuscule rubs to ends of very gently toned spine, a few faint smudges to rear panel, near-fine. A beautiful copy, very desirable in this condition.

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