HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, HEMINGWAY'S AGENT'S COPY. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$10,000 -
$15,000
Sold for $17,500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (chipping primarily to spine ends, spine darkened). Provenance: Curtis Brown Ltd. (label on flyleaf); signature partially effaced on flyleaf.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, HEMINGWAY'S AGENT'S COPY. Curtis Brown, Hemingway's literary agent, was responsible for the foreign rights of the Liveright line of books, and sold In Our Time to publisher Jonathan Cape in 1926.
One of only of only 1335 copies printed, preceded by a limited edition published by the Three Mountain Press in Paris in 1924, containing chapters not included in the Paris edition. Hanneman A3a. RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 5 copies of this work with a dust jacket have sold at auction in the last 20 years. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
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