HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Death in the Afternoon.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1949.

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“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon

First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s masterwork on bullfighting. Octavo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated with black and white photographs. In very good condition with bumping and rubbing. Ownership signature to the front pastedown. The original detached jacket flaps containing the novel's summary and "About Bullfighting" laid in.

Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon is Hemingway's masterwork on the magnificence of the art of bull-fighting. John Dos Passos praised the book as "an absolute model for how that sort of thing ought to be done," and a contemporary review in The New York Herald Tribune described it as "full of the vigor and forthrightness of the author's personality, his humor, his strong opinions—and language… In short, it is the essence of Hemingway" (Mellow, 415).