Lot 268
Lot 268
"Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”
The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway, 1926

Price Realised USD 87,500
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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway, 1926

Price Realised USD 87,500
Price Realised USD 87,500
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

First edition, first issue in near fine, unrestored jacket. The word "stopped" is spelled "stoppped" on p. 181 and the front panel of the jacket cites "In Our Times" instead of "In Our Time." Connolly, The Modern Movement 50; Hanneman A6a.

Octavo. Original black cloth, printed paper labels, fore-edge untrimmed (discoloration to fore-edge of both cloth covers); pictorial jacket printed in black and gold designed by Cleon (Cleonike Damianakes) and with author portrait by John Blomshield (some toning, chiefly to spine panel, folds and edges, light edge-wear including two closed tears to top edge, less than 1.5 cm); custom box. Provenance: Henry Moutor (neat ownership inscription).
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