BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 26 “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?” 27HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s first novel since A Farewell to Arms, basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by Faulkner and featuring Bogart and Bacall together for the first time. This novel, Hemingway’s first since A Farewell to Arms was published eight years earlier, follows the life and adventures of Harry Morgan from rumrunning to revolution. Brimming with criticism directed at American capitalism and the bureaucracy of the Roosevelt administration, the novel explores social circumstances and situations in Key West, “that paradise of the ‘haves’ and purgatory of the ‘have nots.” Page edges faintly embrowned, cloth fresh and fine; bright original dust jacket with a small stain to verso and light edgewear to top of spine; one tiny closed tear to front panel top edge. An attractive nearly fine copy. “The World Is A Fine Place And Worth The Fighting For” 26HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York, 1940. Octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $8000 First edition of this classic Hemingway novel, in firstissue dust jacket. “This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels of American literature… Hemingway has struck universal chords, and he has struck them vibrantly” (J. Donald Adams). First issue, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket without photographer’s name. Hanneman A18a. Bookplate. Book with very slight toning to spine; lightly worn dust jacket with two short tears from upper edge and light fading to the spine. A bright, near-fine copy.
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