HEMINGWAY, ErnestBiblio.com
HEMINGWAY, ErnestBiblio.com
in our time.
1924réf. 171400Paris: printed at the Three Mountains Press and for sale at Shakespeare & Company; London William Jackson 1924. His critically successful second book First edition sole printing review copy with the secretarial presentation inscription on the front free endpaper "Compliments of the author" and the limitation page stamped "Review Copy" in purple underneath the printed notice that 170 copies were printed on Rives handmade paper. The fragile nature of this production means that copies in such well-preserved condition are seldom encountered. Grissom states there were an additional 130 "damaged" copies with the watermark discernible on the frontispiece that were consequentially given away as gifts or review copies. This copy is among the 170 "perfect" copies without the watermarked frontispiece evidencing that the publishers took not only from damaged stock when sending copies out for review. Considered one of the most original short story collections in 20th-century literature in our time established Hemingway as a writer of great promise. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Maxwell Perkins after reading the work "this is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemmingway sic. its remarkable & I'd look him up right away. He's the real thing" 10 October 1924. Edmund Wilson's review shows that the essence of Hemingway was already acknowledged at this early stage. "His prose is of the first distinction demonstrating a naiveté of language often passing into the colloquialism of the character dealt with which serves actually to convey profound emotions and complex states of mind. It is a distinctively American development in prose. Hemingway is rather strikingly original" The Dial October 1924. The book was the final instalment in Ezra Pound's "The Inquest into the state of contemporary English prose" series. An American edition published by Boni & Liveright as In Our Time appeared the following year. Tall octavo. Woodcut portrait frontispiece of the author by Henry Strater. Printed on handmade paper watermarked with the publisher's device. Original buff boards lettered in black and printed in red with decorative newspaper collage edges uncut. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco folding box. Red morocco book label of the American bibliophile John Stuart Groves 1921-1997. Chip to spine head bright boards with central vertical crease and a little wear usual browning to endpapers from binder's glue contents clean. A near-fine copy. Grissom A2.1.a; Hanneman 3a. Connolly The Modern Movement 49. hardcover
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