“AS SHARP AS SPLINTERS OF GLASS”: FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S MEN WITHOUT WOMEN

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Octavo, original black cloth, gold paper labels, top edge orange, original dust jacket. $13,500.

First edition, first issue, of Hemingway’s famed collection of 14 stories, in unrestored first-issue dust jacket.

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." In first-issue dust jacket, with plain orange bands across the front, and two errors on the front inner flap. Hanneman A7a. Bruccoli & Clark I:178. Grissom A.7.1.a.

Text fine, a bit of rubbing to gilt labels Dust jacket in uncommonly nice condition with two short closed edge tears, mild spine toning, one small spot of rubbing to spine foot and light wear to extremities. A near-fine copy.