The Sun Also Rises.

First edition of the Grosset and Dunlop edition of this cornerstone of modern literature. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "In Memory of Heywood Broun from his friend and admirer (he smacked me when I needed it) Ernest Hemingway. Havana 1940." This copy was inscribed and signed by Hemingway in 1940 upon the death of Heywood Broun (a core member of the Algonquin Round Table). The two writers did not always get along it seems (given Hemingway's remark here, and Broun's one time comment about Hemingway, "I do not like the man, yet I must admit that I know no other phony in the whole course of English letter who could write so well about things of which he had not the slightest comprehension"). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.