The First Forty-Nine Stories
by Ernest Hemingway
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, 1956. Hardcover. Good. 1956. 9th impression. 471 pages. No dust jacket. Tan cloth with red lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Light foxed throughout. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Synopsis
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published in 1938. It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories. Many of the stories of the collection exist in other collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1669408162LEE
- Title
- The First Forty-Nine Stories
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1956
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...