BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 20 “That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence” 22HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $9500 First trade edition, first issue, of the novel that “placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters,” in scarce first-issue dust jacket. “Probably [Hemingway’s] best… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical” (Connolly, Modern Movement 60). “The novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway’s novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). First edition, first printing,with all first issue points, in first-issue Art Deco dust jacket, with misspelling of the heroine’s name. Book with very faint spotting to cloth, dust jacket with very light rubbing, mild toning to spine, tape repairs to verso. An extremely good copy. “If It Isn’t Enjoyable—Why Do It?”: First Edition Of Hemingway’s To Have And Have Not 23HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York, 1937. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500 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 rum-running 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.” “In To Have and Have Not, Hemingway for the first time showed an interest in a possible solution of social problems through collective action” (Hart, 327). Hanneman 14A. Text with a few instances of faint marginal foxing, cloth fine; bright dust jacket with very modest wear to spine ends. An exceptionally attractive copy in near-fine condition.
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