“HE FELT HE HAD LEFT EVERYTHING BEHIND”: FIRST EDITION OF THE NICK ADAMS STORIES
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972). Octavo, original blue cloth, original pictorial dust jacket.
First edition of 24 stories by Hemingway, including eight published for the first time.
Arranged in a sequence following the life of Nick Adams, Hemingway's recurrent character, this posthumous collection of two dozen tales includes the "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Last Good Country" and "The Killers," which was adapted into two classic films of the same name, first in 1946 and again in 1964. Published from materials provided by Mary Hemingway, eight stories appear for the first time—"all the new materials have been printed in a special 'oblique' type." Hanneman S-A19A.
Book with mild toning to extremities, bright dust jacket price-clipped. A very nearly fine copy.