To Have and Have Not (Grosset & Dunlap Wrapper]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1942. Circa 1942 wartime edition. Title page states: "This book, while produced under wartime conditions, for the conservation of paper and other essential materials, is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED." Copyright pages contain 1937 date w/code TC below. Bright orange full cloth boards, crisp facsimile cover signature, black spine titles w/bands, light shelf wear. Deckled pages near fine; clean and bright. Charcoal blue colored top-stain. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original dust wrapper matching first edition in gold and black design, light shelf wear, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Front flap w/summary of this title; back flap features summary blurb for A Farewell to Arms by the Chicago Tribune. Back panel w/pictorial image of scrap paper in hand and encouragement to save and re-use and contribute every last bit of scrap for the benefit of the Save Paper Campaign to Save a Bundle a Week and Save Some Boy's Life; image of bald eagle soaring w/newspaper bundle in talons. From front flap: "The issuance of this COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED NEW EDITION is made possible by use of the same plates for the original edition and acceptance by the author of a reduced royalty. Produced in full compliance with wartime regulations." Near fine war-time edition in matching very good wrapper. The dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, Takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous." 262 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.