HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner's 1926.
8vo. (Some minor toning and occasional light spotting.) Original black cloth, gold printed labels on upper cover and spine (lacking dust jacket, spine slightly slanted, a few small scuffs, light wear to extremities); folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the second vanity verse on p.[viii], and with the word "stopped" spelled "stoppped" on p.181. In his The Modern Movement, Cyril Connolly indicates the importance of Hemingway's writing in The Sun Also Rises: "No other writer here recorded stepped so suddenly into fame, or destroyed with such insouciance so many other writers or ways of writing or became such an immediate symbol of an age" (50). Hanneman A6a.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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