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1930réf. 372878New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition second printing. Illustrated xxi 378 vi 1 pp. 8vo. Grey linen stamped and printed. Spine and top edge sunned some light soiling from handling partially unopened very good with Bennett Schneider Book Seller ticket at rear. First edition second printing. Illustrated xxi 378 vi 1 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Hemingway to his Kansas City Cousin Ruth Lowry: "Dear Ruth: The girl who wrote this was very lovely looking and a pretty good poet - was married to one of the most horrid citizens I have ever known now divorced. Think one has a Guggenheim fellowship - what a mine of information the fellow is- / Ernest-" The "lovely looking" "pretty good poet" who wrote this Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948 was an acquaintance of Hemingway's known to him from his travels in expatriate and leftist circles. Elsewhere he called her "a good poet" with a "very good heart" Maris Kathryn "Buried twice" TLS Sept. 27 2024. The "horrid citizen" Hemingway refers to is author Robert L. Wolf 1895-1970 a Jewish radical from a wealthy Cleveland family who was married to Taggard from 1921-1934 so the inscription must have been made after this date. Wolf lived in Paris from 1926-1928 where he was part of Hemingway's social circle and known for his amorous affairs and his struggles with mental illness. Wolf's letters to Taggard during this period mostly detail the agony of their failing relationship but Taggard has suggested that he also blamed his failure to produce novels to the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. The recipient of the inscription is Ruth White Lowry 1884-1974 Hemingway's Kansas City Cousin. Hemingway was familiar with the city having spent time there as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. After returning from Europe Ernest and his second wife Pauline spent time in Arkansas with Pauline's family; they needed somewhere with a good hospital where Pauline could give birth to their son so he went up to stay with Ruth and her husband Malcolm in their large house in Mission Hills where he worked on A Farewell to Arms writing pages 156-260 there in the mornings and swimming in their swimming pool in the afternoon and drinking bootleg Scotch at the country club. It was there that Pauline suffered a life-threatening cesarean section that informed the childbirth scene at the end of his novel. They returned in 1931 so that Pauline could give birth to their second child under the care of the same attending doctor and it was in the Lowry's house that Hemingway finished Death in the Afternoon. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1930réf. 372878New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition second printing. Illustrated xxi 378 vi 1 pp. 8vo. Grey linen stamped and printed. Spine and top edge sunned some light soiling from handling partially unopened very good with Bennett Schneider Book Seller ticket at rear. First edition second printing. Illustrated xxi 378 vi 1 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Hemingway to his Kansas City Cousin Ruth Lowry: "Dear Ruth: The girl who wrote this was very lovely looking and a pretty good poet - was married to one of the most horrid citizens I have ever known now divorced. Think one has a Guggenheim fellowship - what a mine of information the fellow is- / Ernest-" The "lovely looking" "pretty good poet" who wrote this Genevieve Taggard 1894-1948 was an acquaintance of Hemingway's known to him from his travels in expatriate and leftist circles. Elsewhere he called her "a good poet" with a "very good heart" Maris Kathryn "Buried twice" TLS Sept. 27 2024. The "horrid citizen" Hemingway refers to is author Robert L. Wolf 1895-1970 a Jewish radical from a wealthy Cleveland family who was married to Taggard from 1921-1934 so the inscription must have been made after this date. Wolf lived in Paris from 1926-1928 where he was part of Hemingway's social circle and known for his amorous affairs and his struggles with mental illness. Wolf's letters to Taggard during this period mostly detail the agony of their failing relationship but Taggard has suggested that he also blamed his failure to produce novels to the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood. The recipient of the inscription is Ruth White Lowry 1884-1974 Hemingway's Kansas City Cousin. Hemingway was familiar with the city having spent time there as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. After returning from Europe Ernest and his second wife Pauline spent time in Arkansas with Pauline's family; they needed somewhere with a good hospital where Pauline could give birth to their son so he went up to stay with Ruth and her husband Malcolm in their large house in Mission Hills where he worked on A Farewell to Arms writing pages 156-260 there in the mornings and swimming in their swimming pool in the afternoon and drinking bootleg Scotch at the country club. It was there that Pauline suffered a life-threatening cesarean section that informed the childbirth scene at the end of his novel. They returned in 1931 so that Pauline could give birth to their second child under the care of the same attending doctor and it was in the Lowry's house that Hemingway finished Death in the Afternoon. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1923réf. EH312New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923 Two volumes. Foreword by Lady Gregory. Later American edition "Third and Popular Edition". Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on front free endpapers of both volumes. Volume I: "Dear Ruth: - These good solid books are to throw after the American Poetry book at the head of strikeout any one sic who criticizes the management -- Ernest."; Volume II: "Dear Ruth - This is the second solid volume to throw after the first - Ernest."; Ruth Lowry's ownership signature in pencil on front pastedown of Vol. I. Publisher's dark blue cloth with title labels to spines printed in black; lacking dust jackets. Very good set with some toning to spines and labels light wear to spine ends light rubbing to front board of Vol. I Bennett Schneider bookseller tickets to both rear pastedowns and Bennett Schneider bookmark laid in to Vol. II. Overall a lovely set inscribed twice by Hemingway. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 - 1922 was an English poet diplomat and outspoken critic of colonialism. Blunt married Lady Anne Noel the granddaughter of Lord Byron in 1869 and together they ran the Crabbet Arabian Stud a prominent horse breeding farm in Sussex which imported exceptional Arabian horses from the Middle East. Blunt's marriage to Lord Byron's granddaughter was emblematic of his broader aspiration to emulate Byron: much like the renowned Romantic poet Blunt was a strikingly handsome womanizer a social outcast and a world traveler who fought for idealistic causes. Some of the chapter titles in My Diaries illustrate the sweeping range of Blunt's interests and adventures: "A Visit to Greece in 1888" "Egypt under Tewfik in 1889" "A Visit to Tunis and Tripoli" "Satan Absolved - The Boer War" "Literature and Politics" "The French Invade Morocco" and "The War with Germany Declared." Blunt published many works in his lifetime including The Love Sonnets of Proteus 1881 The Future of Islam 1882 and Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery 1899. Blunt and Hemingway were similar in personality and lifestyle in that they are both remembered not only for their literary contributions but also for embracing a comprehensive life and valuing the wisdom gained from experiences. . Signed. Later American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1923réf. EH312New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923 Two volumes. Foreword by Lady Gregory. Later American edition "Third and Popular Edition". Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on front free endpapers of both volumes. Volume I: "Dear Ruth: - These good solid books are to throw after the American Poetry book at the head of strikeout any one sic who criticizes the management -- Ernest."; Volume II: "Dear Ruth - This is the second solid volume to throw after the first - Ernest."; Ruth Lowry's ownership signature in pencil on front pastedown of Vol. I. Publisher's dark blue cloth with title labels to spines printed in black; lacking dust jackets. Very good set with some toning to spines and labels light wear to spine ends light rubbing to front board of Vol. I Bennett Schneider bookseller tickets to both rear pastedowns and Bennett Schneider bookmark laid in to Vol. II. Overall a lovely set inscribed twice by Hemingway. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 - 1922 was an English poet diplomat and outspoken critic of colonialism. Blunt married Lady Anne Noel the granddaughter of Lord Byron in 1869 and together they ran the Crabbet Arabian Stud a prominent horse breeding farm in Sussex which imported exceptional Arabian horses from the Middle East. Blunt's marriage to Lord Byron's granddaughter was emblematic of his broader aspiration to emulate Byron: much like the renowned Romantic poet Blunt was a strikingly handsome womanizer a social outcast and a world traveler who fought for idealistic causes. Some of the chapter titles in My Diaries illustrate the sweeping range of Blunt's interests and adventures: "A Visit to Greece in 1888" "Egypt under Tewfik in 1889" "A Visit to Tunis and Tripoli" "Satan Absolved - The Boer War" "Literature and Politics" "The French Invade Morocco" and "The War with Germany Declared." Blunt published many works in his lifetime including The Love Sonnets of Proteus 1881 The Future of Islam 1882 and Satan Absolved: A Victorian Mystery 1899. Blunt and Hemingway were similar in personality and lifestyle in that they are both remembered not only for their literary contributions but also for embracing a comprehensive life and valuing the wisdom gained from experiences. . Signed. Later American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1932réf. 140949333New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing with an "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page. xi 517 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece by Juan Gris and 81 black and white photographs. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt dark topstain. Near Fine with light wear to extremities fraying at head and tail of spine bookseller ticket to back pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped $3.50 dust jacket with light toning and edgewear and vertical crease to spine. A magnificent copy of Hemingway's novelistic nonfiction account of Spanish bullfighting scarce with a dust jacket in this condition. Hanneman 10A. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1929réf. 2210410Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. signed limited. hardcover. near fine. SIGNED LIMITED edition. This being #12 of 510 copies of which 500 were for sale and 10 for presentation. Book near fine minor tanning on covers book very fine on inside pages still uncut at top. Housed in a custom-made elaborate fold-out case. Charles Scribner's Sons
1935réf. 2210317Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. first. hardcover. near fine/fine. First edition first printing with date and "A" on copyright page. Book near fine fading to spine and to edges of covers former owner's name to top of front paste-down. Dust jacket fine. Housed in fold-out custom case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
1925réf. 69758New York:: Boni & Liveright 1925. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. Good to very good with some oxidation of the gold decoration and lettering to cloth. The jacket has some chipping to the extremities of the spine and the upper edge of the front panel not affecting any lettering. There are some creases to the backstrip and front panel. Still a decent example of a very scarce dust jacket. 8vo. Boni & Liveright, hardcover
1929réf. 014379New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful Fine copy of this desirable book in an attractive new slipcase. Original vellum spine and green boards with vellum tips. Copy #48 of 510 SIGNED by the author Hemingway's only signed and limited edition. An absolutely gorgeous copy the boards and the vellum both sparkling fresh with the black leather label completely intact and bright. Housed in a new and attractive slipcase reproducing the original and on which the original limitation label has been mounted. Laid in are receipts for purchase of this book from 1932 private purchase for five dollars and 1984 Goodspeed's. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1932réf. 140949333New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing with an "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page. xi 517 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece by Juan Gris and 81 black and white photographs. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt dark topstain. Near Fine with light wear to extremities fraying at head and tail of spine bookseller ticket to back pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped $3.50 dust jacket with light toning and edgewear and vertical crease to spine. A magnificent copy of Hemingway's novelistic nonfiction account of Spanish bullfighting scarce with a dust jacket in this condition. Hanneman 10A. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1929réf. 2210410Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. signed limited. hardcover. near fine. SIGNED LIMITED edition. This being #12 of 510 copies of which 500 were for sale and 10 for presentation. Book near fine minor tanning on covers book very fine on inside pages still uncut at top. Housed in a custom-made elaborate fold-out case. Charles Scribner's Sons books
1935réf. 2210317Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. first. hardcover. near fine/fine. First edition first printing with date and "A" on copyright page. Book near fine fading to spine and to edges of covers former owner's name to top of front paste-down. Dust jacket fine. Housed in fold-out custom case. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1937réf. 12825An extraordinary one-of-a-kind historic collectible beautifully framed. This is the ORIGINAL Western Union Cablegrama dated and sent from Havana Cuba on April 8 1937 to General Franco Salamanca Spain. It is sent from Elicio Arguelles head of Franco's Nationalist Committee in Cuba to Franco in Salamanca. The message translates into English as follows: THE SPANISH NATIONALIST COMMITTEE SENDS TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AS MEDIATION FOR THOSE RECONQUERING SPANISH SOIL What makes this unique piece truly extraordinary is that beneath the printed message written in ink in his instantly recognizable hand is a three-line notation: "Salamanca" / Spain 1937 / Earnest Hemingway The background is this: The sender Arguelles is the father of Hemingway's close friend of the same name Elicio Arguelles Jr. the fisherman in the famous photograph of himself standing beside Hemingway with the 900-pound Marlin they caught. As was customary at the time the sender also received a copy of the telegram. His copy went to the son who in turn gave it to Hemingway to sign. This is an absolutely one-of-a-kind collectible of considerable historical significance. A major collectible. Western Union books
1931réf. EH315New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1931 Preface by George Bernard Shaw. First edition first printing. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on the front free endpaper with reference to the previous owner Hemingway bibliographer Captain Louis Henry Cohn: "Dear Ruth: - This is really a 2nd hand book because it was the gift of Captain Louis Henry Cohn the great bibliographer - Pauline didn't like it but Shaw and Terry and Capt. Cohn and Lawrence Stallings all did so you may find something in it - I have not read it - They must have been very sure how great they were or very careful to have kept all the letters and been able to find them - Ernest." Publisher's red cloth with front board and spine lettered in gilt red topstain; lacking dust jacket. Very good with toning to spine and board edges heavy dimming to spine gilt some very light scratches to rear board small House of Books ticket Captain Cohn's bookshop to rear pastedown. Overall a uniquely inscribed copy with exceptional provenance. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry. This book is a collection of correspondence between the great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950 and leading English actress Ellen Terry 1847 - 1928. In 1892 Ellen reached out to Shaw then a 36-year-old music critic to get his opinion on the career prospects of a musical protégé of hers. This began a roughly 30-year correspondence between the two which was marked by flirtation genuine affection and Shaw's repeated attempts to lure Ellen away from Henry Irving's productions at Lyceum Theatre to star in theatrical productions of his own work. With praise from its New York Times review: "It represents the very flower of the minds and hearts-the select harvest of sentiment and wit-of two of the most remarkable personages of our generation." Captain Louis Henry Cohn 1889- 1953 born in Brooklyn New York earned his military rank by fighting in the French Army during World War I. In 1930 Cohn wrote a letter to Hemingway asking him for permission to compile a bibliography of his works. Hemingway begrudgingly agreed and in 1931 the book A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway was published: in a note from Hemingway to Cohn which was later included as the frontispiece of the bibliography Hemingway wrote "I think it all balls to publish bibliographies of living writers". Later Cohn and his wife Marguerite opened House of Books a successful bookshop specializing in modern first editions. Under the House of Books imprint Cohn published an edition of Hemingway's short story "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" 1933 limited to 300 numbered copies and a facsimile of Hemingway's "Bastard Note"-a legal disclaimer page included in the second printing of A Farewell to Arms with a humorous note to the printer in Hemingway's hand-limited to 93 numbered copies. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1931réf. EH315New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1931 Preface by George Bernard Shaw. First edition first printing. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on the front free endpaper with reference to the previous owner Hemingway bibliographer Captain Louis Henry Cohn: "Dear Ruth: - This is really a 2nd hand book because it was the gift of Captain Louis Henry Cohn the great bibliographer - Pauline didn't like it but Shaw and Terry and Capt. Cohn and Lawrence Stallings all did so you may find something in it - I have not read it - They must have been very sure how great they were or very careful to have kept all the letters and been able to find them - Ernest." Publisher's red cloth with front board and spine lettered in gilt red topstain; lacking dust jacket. Very good with toning to spine and board edges heavy dimming to spine gilt some very light scratches to rear board small House of Books ticket Captain Cohn's bookshop to rear pastedown. Overall a uniquely inscribed copy with exceptional provenance. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin Ruth White Lowry. This book is a collection of correspondence between the great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950 and leading English actress Ellen Terry 1847 - 1928. In 1892 Ellen reached out to Shaw then a 36-year-old music critic to get his opinion on the career prospects of a musical protégé of hers. This began a roughly 30-year correspondence between the two which was marked by flirtation genuine affection and Shaw's repeated attempts to lure Ellen away from Henry Irving's productions at Lyceum Theatre to star in theatrical productions of his own work. With praise from its New York Times review: "It represents the very flower of the minds and hearts-the select harvest of sentiment and wit-of two of the most remarkable personages of our generation." Captain Louis Henry Cohn 1889- 1953 born in Brooklyn New York earned his military rank by fighting in the French Army during World War I. In 1930 Cohn wrote a letter to Hemingway asking him for permission to compile a bibliography of his works. Hemingway begrudgingly agreed and in 1931 the book A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway was published: in a note from Hemingway to Cohn which was later included as the frontispiece of the bibliography Hemingway wrote "I think it all balls to publish bibliographies of living writers". Later Cohn and his wife Marguerite opened House of Books a successful bookshop specializing in modern first editions. Under the House of Books imprint Cohn published an edition of Hemingway's short story "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" 1933 limited to 300 numbered copies and a facsimile of Hemingway's "Bastard Note"-a legal disclaimer page included in the second printing of A Farewell to Arms with a humorous note to the printer in Hemingway's hand-limited to 93 numbered copies. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1929réf. 149688New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. Signed limited edition of this early Hemingway classic which established him among the American masters. Tall octavo original publisher's white vellum over green boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt. One of 510 copies signed by Ernest Hemingway this is number 102. Very good with toning to the spine. Housed in the rare original slipcase which is in good condition with tape repairs. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefieldweary demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertionthis gripping semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. Farewell To Arms is the only signed limited edition of Ernest Hemingway's works. It is the basis for the 1932 film bearing the same name directed by Frank Borzage and starring Gary Cooper Helen Hayes and Adolphe Menjou. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
réf. 150070Rare original black and white photograph of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway. Black and white matte photograph of Hemingway at his peak wearing Western garb and leaning on a car. Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway in black ballpoint at the bottom margin below the image "For Taylor Williams with affection and admiration from his friend Ernest Hemingway Sun Valley 1939 - 1940." The recipient was Hemingway's great friend Taylor “Beartracks” Williams the well-known Sun Valley hunting and fishing guide. Hemingway’s friendship with Williams dated back to their meeting in Idaho in the late 1930s after which Hemingway frequently returned to Ketchum before eventually settling there. The spring of 1953 also marked a peak moment in Hemingway’s career and personal life: he had recently written The Old Man and the Sea and received the Pulitzer Prize and this period preceded the airplane accidents of 1954 and his later forced departure from Cuba during the Castro regime—events that would profoundly affect his final years and contribute to his death in 1961. In fine condition. Triple matted and framed. The photograph measures 6.5 inches by 9.5 inches. The entire piece measures 16.75 inches by 13.5 inches. Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961 was one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century whose concise prose style and exploration of universal themes reshaped modern literature. Known for his works such as The Old Man and the Sea A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway developed a narrative voice that captured the complexities of human struggle and resilience with stark simplicity. His experiences as a journalist and participant in both World Wars deeply informed his writing lending authenticity to his depictions of courage loss and alienation. While his personal life marked by adventure and tragedy often overshadowed his literary contributions his stylistic innovations and engagement with existential themes solidified his status as a transformative figure in American letters. By pushing the boundaries of narrative form and emphasizing the power of understatement Hemingway left an enduring legacy on both literature and the cultural understanding of the human condition. unknown
1929réf. 375418New York: Scribners 1929. First edition number 56 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 10 355 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's light bluish-green boards backed and cornered with vellum black morocco spine label lettered in gold. Near fine in original decorative-paper board slipcase repaired in custom half-morocco clamshell box. First edition number 56 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 10 355 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The only signed limited issue of Hemingway's work and one of the greatest war novels of all time. "His first full-length novel and probably his best . Its success was so enormous that it may be said to have ended Hemingway's influence as a writer. After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence" Connolly. Hanneman 8b; Grissom A.8.1.a2; Connolly Modern Movement 60 Scribners unknown
1940réf. 149834New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First edition early printing of Hemingway's third novel a tragic exploration of love duty and the futility of war. Octavo original publisher's cloth. Association copy lengthily inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to his cousin on the front free endpaper "For Ruth and Malcolm from their child producing house guest who is very fond of them what a lousy dedication when there is so much to say Ernest Hemingway." The recipients Ruth White Lowry 1884–1974 and her husband William Malcolm Lowry 1884–1953 were longtime residents of Kansas City Missouri and integral members of Ernest Hemingway’s extended Midwestern family. Ruth the daughter of William White and Mary Hall White was a first cousin of Grace Hall Hemingway the author’s mother. This made her Ernest’s first cousin once removed though their families were close enough that Hemingway referred to her simply as “Cousin Ruth.” The White and Hall families had deep Midwestern roots—Ruth was educated in Kansas City and was part of the city’s civic and cultural life throughout the early twentieth century. When Hemingway and his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer returned from Paris to the United States in 1928 they came to Kansas City for the birth of their first child Patrick Hemingway who was delivered at St. Mary’s Hospital on June 28 of that year. The Hemingways stayed with Ruth and Malcolm Lowry at their Kansas City home both before and after the delivery. Pauline returned to the same house three years later in November 1931 for the birth of their second son Gregory Hancock Hemingway while Ernest shuttled between Kansas City and Key West during the final stages of Death in the Afternoon. The Lowrys’ hospitality offered Hemingway a familial refuge far from the expatriate world of Europe and the growing celebrity that attended his literary success. The relationship between the two families endured for decades. Letters and family recollections describe Ruth as a warm maternal presence in Hemingway’s life—a relative he could trust with his young family during periods of upheaval. The Lowry household thus occupies a unique place in Hemingway’s biography: it was the setting for the births of both of his sons with Pauline and the site of rare domestic calm amid his restless movements between continents. Copies inscribed to members of the Lowry family remain among the most significant Hemingway association copies linking the author’s private life in the American Midwest to his public identity as one of the central figures of twentieth-century literature. Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940 represents one of the author’s most complex meditations on war love and moral responsibility. Set during the Spanish Civil War the novel follows Robert Jordan an American volunteer in the International Brigades as he undertakes a mission to destroy a fascist-held bridge. Drawing on Hemingway’s own experiences as a journalist in Spain the novel fuses political engagement with psychological depth exploring the tension between individual conviction and collective duty. Stylistically it embodies Hemingway’s characteristic economy of language—his “iceberg theory”—while broadening his earlier focus on personal heroism to encompass a larger ethical inquiry into the nature of sacrifice and solidarity. The novel’s title drawn from John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions underscores its universalist theme: the interconnectedness of human suffering and mortality. Through its spare prose shifting perspectives and symbolic use of death and time For Whom the Bell Tolls transforms the brutality of civil conflict into a profound reflection on the cost of idealism and the enduring value of human compassion amid catastrophe. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1929réf. 375418New York: Scribners 1929. First edition number 56 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 10 355 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's light bluish-green boards backed and cornered with vellum black morocco spine label lettered in gold. Near fine in original decorative-paper board slipcase repaired in custom half-morocco clamshell box. First edition number 56 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 10 355 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The only signed limited issue of Hemingway's work and one of the greatest war novels of all time. "His first full-length novel and probably his best . Its success was so enormous that it may be said to have ended Hemingway's influence as a writer. After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence" Connolly. Hanneman 8b; Grissom A.8.1.a2; Connolly Modern Movement 60 Scribners unknown books
réf. 266226/10/55. “When you are dead you are dead for a long time."" He advises a young woman friend “Please be careful about aircraft…It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly.” Hemingway will send her an animal skin from his African safari to decorate her new house"" Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here."" <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26883 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204131000/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-1-1600x198.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""198"" /> After covering the Spanish Civil War in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vigía “Lookout Farm” an unpretentious estate outside Havana Cuba. In 1940 he published “For Whom the Bell Tolls” which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in “A Farewell to Arms” he focused on its pointlessness and in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” on the comradeship it creates. During World War II he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public. Soon after he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for “The Old Man and the Sea” a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who after an extended struggle hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine and the 50000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days. In 1955 back in Cuba Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors’ advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife’s’ efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea” starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months suffering from hepatitis and nephritis. Hemingway's relationship with faith was complicated. Raised protestant he converted to catholicism but was largely religiously indifferent. He had seen so much death and tragedy. At this point evidently he had long since abandoned the faith of his youth. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26884 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130953/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-2-1600x219.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""219"" /> Mary Lou Firle a second year student at CCNY was in Cuba in early 1955. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had “Farewell to Arms.” She picked up the phone and called Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added “I have a friend at Fordham University.” Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up. After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. She had told him of her family background that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan and Hemingway called her the “Black Kraut.” The reason for the nickname Hemingway said was that he called his good friend Marlene Dietrich the famous German actress “Kraut”; so Mary Lou who was very tan would be the “Black Kraut.” Later that day Hemingway’s driver drove her back to Havana. The two exchanged letters in July 1955. She wrote him again in October and received this response. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea” starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and he was grateful to have the weather interrupt the filming. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to ""A Farewell to Arms"" numerous times and that is possibly the writing he refers to. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26885 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130947/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-3-1600x201.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""201"" /> Typed letter signed with typewriter corrections and a pencil notation by Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba October 6 1955 to Mary Lou on his fear of flying and unbelief in the afterlife signed EH with the original envelope sending it. He also jokes about the equity that hurricanes are named invariably after women. “Thank you for writing and I wish to congratulate your mother and your new step father if they would like that. I hope they are happy. With a good daughter like you they should be. “Am very happy you took your vacation up north as down here it was rugged with the effects of the different hurricanes. Hope we are not going to have Za-Za. I knew a girl named Janet once but she never killed any people in Barbados nor Tampico. It is easy to get tired of this naming tropical storms after girls and I think it is in bad taste especially when you have been through bad tropical storms. “Please be careful about aircraft. If I ever see you will tell you how and why. It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly. No second thoughts will help you and when you are dead you are dead for a long time. Maybe we are only alive when we are dead but I have not believed that for a long time. Excuse me if I am pedantic about aircraft but everybody is pedantic about something. “I am very proud of your new house and that you made it yourself I hope without hitting yourself too many times with any blunt instrument and I will send you the skin of a good African beast when I receive them. Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here. The old hides have been ruined by the humidity of the many hurricanes they have gone through and I would rather send you a fresh newly tanned one. “In return will you see Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown and tell them that I have not written because it has been a tough year in many ways but that we are winning good and I have all my stuff; worse even that Mr. Podres and am on page 613 and do not have to do any more photography on the picture until April 15 and not think about it until March first. Have been working so hard and so long I must take some kind of vacation but not until this wicked month of October for hurricanes is over. We are not yet out of the woods but I know the woods ok. “Take care of yourself Black Kraut and please deliver this message to Mr. Bob and please do not put in the television but use any dough to buy more good records instead and I will send you the hide of a good beat that will be good for the joint. Please let me hear and if you keep contact with the Bob Browns I would be happy because while I have never met him I know he is a good man."" Signed by Hemingway with initials. A fascinating letter showing Hemingway’s feelings about life after death the importance of life love but of but fear of flying and interest in hunting game in Africa. It has been in the recipient’s family’s possession since it was received and we acquired it direct from them. Mary Lou had promised Hemingway that she would not sell the letter during her lifetime and kept her promise. She told Morris it would be ok to sell it after she passed. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown
réf. 266226/10/55. “When you are dead you are dead for a long time."" He advises a young woman friend “Please be careful about aircraft…It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly.” Hemingway will send her an animal skin from his African safari to decorate her new house"" Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here."" <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26883 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204131000/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-1-1600x198.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""198"" /> After covering the Spanish Civil War in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vigía “Lookout Farm” an unpretentious estate outside Havana Cuba. In 1940 he published “For Whom the Bell Tolls” which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in “A Farewell to Arms” he focused on its pointlessness and in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” on the comradeship it creates. During World War II he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public. Soon after he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for “The Old Man and the Sea” a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who after an extended struggle hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine and the 50000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days. In 1955 back in Cuba Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors’ advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife’s’ efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea” starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months suffering from hepatitis and nephritis. Hemingway's relationship with faith was complicated. Raised protestant he converted to catholicism but was largely religiously indifferent. He had seen so much death and tragedy. At this point evidently he had long since abandoned the faith of his youth. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26884 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130953/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-2-1600x219.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""219"" /> Mary Lou Firle a second year student at CCNY was in Cuba in early 1955. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had “Farewell to Arms.” She picked up the phone and called Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added “I have a friend at Fordham University.” Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up. After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. She had told him of her family background that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan and Hemingway called her the “Black Kraut.” The reason for the nickname Hemingway said was that he called his good friend Marlene Dietrich the famous German actress “Kraut”; so Mary Lou who was very tan would be the “Black Kraut.” Later that day Hemingway’s driver drove her back to Havana. The two exchanged letters in July 1955. She wrote him again in October and received this response. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea” starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press of lunches and drinking finally takes its toll and he was grateful to have the weather interrupt the filming. Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to ""A Farewell to Arms"" numerous times and that is possibly the writing he refers to. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-26885 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130947/Hemingway-Oct-6-1955-2-3-1600x201.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""201"" /> Typed letter signed with typewriter corrections and a pencil notation by Hemingway Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba October 6 1955 to Mary Lou on his fear of flying and unbelief in the afterlife signed EH with the original envelope sending it. He also jokes about the equity that hurricanes are named invariably after women. “Thank you for writing and I wish to congratulate your mother and your new step father if they would like that. I hope they are happy. With a good daughter like you they should be. “Am very happy you took your vacation up north as down here it was rugged with the effects of the different hurricanes. Hope we are not going to have Za-Za. I knew a girl named Janet once but she never killed any people in Barbados nor Tampico. It is easy to get tired of this naming tropical storms after girls and I think it is in bad taste especially when you have been through bad tropical storms. “Please be careful about aircraft. If I ever see you will tell you how and why. It is one of the great pleasures of life but you pay off accordingly. No second thoughts will help you and when you are dead you are dead for a long time. Maybe we are only alive when we are dead but I have not believed that for a long time. Excuse me if I am pedantic about aircraft but everybody is pedantic about something. “I am very proud of your new house and that you made it yourself I hope without hitting yourself too many times with any blunt instrument and I will send you the skin of a good African beast when I receive them. Our trophies sic were shipped July 18th from Mombassa via Amsterdam to be trans-shipped to NY and then here. The old hides have been ruined by the humidity of the many hurricanes they have gone through and I would rather send you a fresh newly tanned one. “In return will you see Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown and tell them that I have not written because it has been a tough year in many ways but that we are winning good and I have all my stuff; worse even that Mr. Podres and am on page 613 and do not have to do any more photography on the picture until April 15 and not think about it until March first. Have been working so hard and so long I must take some kind of vacation but not until this wicked month of October for hurricanes is over. We are not yet out of the woods but I know the woods ok. “Take care of yourself Black Kraut and please deliver this message to Mr. Bob and please do not put in the television but use any dough to buy more good records instead and I will send you the hide of a good beat that will be good for the joint. Please let me hear and if you keep contact with the Bob Browns I would be happy because while I have never met him I know he is a good man."" Signed by Hemingway with initials. A fascinating letter showing Hemingway’s feelings about life after death the importance of life love but of but fear of flying and interest in hunting game in Africa. It has been in the recipient’s family’s possession since it was received and we acquired it direct from them. Mary Lou had promised Hemingway that she would not sell the letter during her lifetime and kept her promise. She told Morris it would be ok to sell it after she passed. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown books
1941réf. 33Ernest Hemingway Autograph letter signed "Ernesto" to George Brown. Dated "The night before our arrival in Hawaii" February 1941. 7 pages 12mo in pencil on two bifolia with the letterhead of the Matson Line shipping company. A remarkable letter: pure Hemingway. "Dear George We had an OK trip to Los Angeles. Went OK there. Stayed with Coopers who met us with the big new Cadillac double funeral hearse he bought his wife for Xmas and they had a dinner that night with one swell broad Carole Landis that all the married or uglies jumped all over because she got a little drunko. But she was only 22 and I said to them they should have seen what guys like me or Cooper were like when we were drunk at 22. Coopers wife Rocky and I beat Cooper and Marty 5 set of tennis to win 11 dollars in 2 days. But no money changes hands that way on acct of husband and wife. I think Marty and I could beat them but Mrs C. likes to win very much. More even than giggy. She has very extensive taught ground strokes but she has a high bouncing serve that I could set myself and murder so it is better for her happiness that we are partners. Marty was much prettier than the hollwood shes and looked like a human being instead of a kennel entry but I shudder to think what would pass with the Colonel faced by them blondes altho lots of them were 22-23 years old which is aged in the Colonels book. With a cold my ears gave me hell on the plane. Never had that before. San Francisco was fine. We ate very well and saw Mike Ward an old pal and his wife and shipped up Ingrid Bergman to look her over for Maria for the picture. She is perfect. Really swell. Not like those Hollywooders. On this boat it has been rough as a bastard all the time. The gym guy wouldn't box. He rubs too and he says he is afraid it would hurt his hands altho he says he teaches boxing. he comes from Hollywood too where I guess hands hurt easy. Probably his thumbs swell up. It was a shame because I was going to left hook him in the profile like Barney Gimbel ruining a bum. But I worked on the big bag instead but couldn't rouse no really dirty feeling against it on such short acquaintance and when you get close to it the fucking thing seems sort of dead and helpless and not like ones fellow man. I practiced hitting it in the balls a little. Tomorrow we get into Honolulu. It sounds more like a ½ jig Coney Island or Polynesian Miami Beach all the time. The food on this boat is swell tho. Marty sends her love. We got a bang out of the wire. I miss you and the reading Colonel and working out and all the fun we have but will be back soon with a lot of new lies and stories. Take care of yourself. Best always from us both Ernesto" This letter is addressed to George Brown a very close friend of Hemingway an Irishman who had given him boxing lessons in New York and who would still be by his side the day before his suicide. Hemingway had spent a few days in Los Angeles staying with Gary Cooper where preparations were underway for the film adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman directed by Sam Wood and released in 1943. In his inimitable style—full of energy humor and coarseness—Hemingway recounts the various episodes that punctuated his stay. We encounter Gary Cooper his wife Sandra Shaw known as Rocky the actress Carole Landis Ingrid Bergman David O. Selznick amid tennis matches drinking boxing and social gatherings. Hemingway begins by gently mocking the actor and his "double Cadillac hearse" then introduces us to a Hollywood party where Carole Landis 1919–1948 has had a bit too much to drink prompting "the married men and the ugly ones" to crowd around her. Nurturing his own legend the author cannot resist adding: "they should have seen what guys like me or Cooper were like when we were drunk at 22." Hemingway formed a genuine friendship with the actor of whom he said: "Coop is a fine man; as honest upright kind and decent as he seems. If one invented a character like Coop no one would believe it. He is simply too good to be true." His admiration also extends to Ingrid Bergman: "She is perfect. Really wonderful. Not like those Hollywood women." Hemingway had just married his third wife Martha Gellhorn whom he praises here in his own way: "Marty was much prettier than the Hollywood women and looked like a human being instead of a kennel entry." The two couples exchanging partners engage in fierce tennis matches. Here again the writer's confidence comes through: "She has very extensive well-trained ground strokes but she has a high-bouncing serve that I could murder so it is better for her happiness that we are partners." But it is in his account of the boxing bouts he longs to fight that Hemingway appears most fully himself. He overwhelms with sarcasm the ship's gym instructor who refuses to spar with him for fear of hurting his hands. So Hemingway unleashes himself on the punching bag giving us a small anthology piece brimming with humor: "But I worked on the big bag instead… and when you get close to it the damn thing seems sort of dead and helpless and not like one's fellow man. I practiced hitting it in the balls a little." His description of Honolulu is equally striking: "It sounds more and more like some half-assed Coney Island or Polynesian Miami Beach." These lines give an exact sense of what the writer's conversation with his friends must have been like. The letter also mentions another of his close friends Taylor Williams his hunting guide known as "the Colonel" who seems to have had a taste for rather young women: "I shudder to think what would pass with the Colonel faced by them blondes… even if many were 22–23 years old which is aged in the Colonel's book." As he says at the end of the letter "we will be back soon with a lot of new lies and stories." This lively letter is a wonderful example of those stories that delighted his friends—and now delight us.
1929réf. 014379New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful Fine copy of this desirable book in an attractive new slipcase. Original vellum spine and green boards with vellum tips. Copy #48 of 510 SIGNED by the author Hemingway's only signed and limited edition. An absolutely gorgeous copy the boards and the vellum both sparkling fresh with the black leather label completely intact and bright. Housed in a new and attractive slipcase reproducing the original and on which the original limitation label has been mounted. Laid in are receipts for purchase of this book from 1932 private purchase for five dollars and 1984 Goodspeed's. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1925réf. 2405002Boni & Liveright 1925. first. hardcover. fine/fine. First edition with 1925 on title and copyright page. In professionally restored dust jacket that is in fine condition. Book fine slight foxing small sticker to bottom of rear free end paper. Comes with publisher's ad pamphlet and the first magazine appearance of In Our Time in Little Review Exiles' Number Spring 1923. Housed in custom-made fold-out case. More photos upon request. Boni & Liveright unknown
