The First Forty-Nine Stories
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: The Reprint Society, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Small hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 414 pp. A special reprint edition containing all 49 short stories that Heminway ever wrote. Couple of faint age spots to the rear blank endpaper. A near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Wrapper has several small chips and tears at spine ends and a tape mend to the verso of the wrapper at the top of the spine. Despite these flaws, a handsome copy.
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
- Derringer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28338
- Title
- The First Forty-Nine Stories
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
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Derringer Books
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Avon, Connecticut
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