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Men Without Women
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner's, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second State. Very Good in a Very Good second issue jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and rubbed, two circular dampstains on the front panel, a few small closed tears and minor chips. Black buckram, lightly bumped at the corners and faded at the spine, with gold pastedowns on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound but with the front hinge a bit loose, clean otherwise. Hemingway's second collection of short stories, including classics like "The Killers," "In Another Country," and "Hills Like White Elephants
Synopsis
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence. "Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3914
- Title
- Men Without Women
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- American Literature, Short Stories, Nobel Prize
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Buckram
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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