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HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. [Including: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Capital of the World, Old Man at the Bridge, Up in Michigan].

First Edition, first issue of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938.

$975.00
Out of Stock Item Number: RRB-146570
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition, first printing with the Scribner's A of Hemingway's famed anthology, one of only 1,175 copies printed. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Neely. Rare in the first issue.
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories including Up in Michigan, In Another Country, After the Storm, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Night Before Battle appear here for the first time in book form.
$975.00
Out of Stock