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MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 232 pages. 12mo. Bound in black cloth with gold paper title patches on spine and front cover. First edition, first state (undamaged page number on p. 3; weighs 15.8 ounces). Collection of 14 short stories, including the first appearance in book form of "The Killers," the Hemingway classic that has been made into 4 films. The book is in good to very good condition: clean and tight, with fading and mottling of color on covers; pages lightly toned; some minor foxing limited to last 15 pages. The dust jacket is NOT present.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1980
- Title
- MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary First Editions; Literature and Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
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