HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
8vo. Original green cloth (some fading to spine and edges); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some fading, particularly to spine, a few creases and tiny chips).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. In Grissom's "Jacket A" with the wide green band on rear panel covering 7 lines of text. Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's second work of non-fiction, recounts a month spent on safari in East Africa with his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, in December 1933. Hanneman A13a.
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