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THE FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Collection containing Hemingway's only full-length play, and a substantial number of his finest short stories, including "The Killers," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Fifty Grand," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Grissom A.16.1.a; Hanneman A16a. First Printing, one of 5,350 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,597,[1]pp. Trace of fraying at crown, sunning to upper edge of textblock, with light offsetting to endpapers, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing and tiny tears to extremities, shallow loss at crown (not affecting lettering), and some light, scattered scoring to front panel; unrestored, Very Good or better.
Synopsis
Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4855
- Title
- THE FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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