My Brother, Ernest Hemingway.

First edition of this intimate work on Ernest Hemingway by his brother. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "February 21, 1962, This book is for George Brown, who was the kind of friend Papa needed more of, and who helped make this book possible. With profound thanks, Lex Hemingway." The recipient, George Brown was Hemingway's close friend and boxing trainer. Hemingway first met Brown, the owner of a gym in midtown New York, in the 1930s. The author often visited Brown when he was in the city and hosted him at his homes in Cuba and Idaho. In 1955, Hemingway invited Brown to La Vigia to be his physical trainer for the strenuous fishing sequences in the film adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea. Brown gave him postoperative rubdowns and delighted him with his unfailing solicitude. 'Did they hurt you, Ernie?' George would say. 'How's the back? Lie down like you were going to sleep. Make him a drink, René. What kind of liquor going to hurt you, boy? Hold it up to his mouth, René. Drink it slow, Ernie. Just relax good, and let me get the legs loosened up.' Ernest reveled in such treatment (Baker, p. 531). Following Hemingway's death in 1962, George was one of the pallbearers at his funeral. Brown is thanked in the acknowledgements on page 7. Grissom A24; Hanneman 24a. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of Hemingway on the front panel by Yousef Karsh.