HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

The Sun Also Rises.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1926.

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EXTRAORDINARILY RARE INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S THE SUN ALSO RISES, IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET; Inscribed by Him in the Year of publication to Publisher Edward Titus

First edition, first issue of the first printing, with the misprint ("stoppped") on page 181 line 26, in the first issue dust jacket with the misprint on the front panel ("In Our Times" vs. "In Our Time"). Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “To Edward Titus with best regards Ernest Hemingway Paris 1926.” The recipient, Edward Titus was an expatriate publisher of the Black Manikin Press, issuing, among other publications, Kiki’s Memoirs, featuring an introduction by Hemingway. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without any restoration. The Annette Campbell-White copy brought $120,000 at Sotheby's in 2007 and that was not inscribed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable inscribed, especially in the year of publication.

The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926, and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Though it initially received mixed reviews, it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" (Meyers, 1985). The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman à clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation," considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong. Naturally, themes of love, death, renewal in nature, and the nature of masculinity are heavily investigated. For example, the characters engage in bull-fighting, which is presented as an idealized drama: The matador faces death and, in so doing, creates a moment of existential nothingness, broken when he vanquishes the possibility of death by killing the bull (Stoltzfus, 2005). The Sun Also Rises is seen as an iconic modernist novel for future generations (Mellow, 1992), although it has been emphasized that Hemingway was not philosophically a modernist (Reynolds, 1990). "The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece - one of them, anyway - and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation" (David Laskin).