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Auction House Sothebys
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Auction Name Library of an English Bibliophile, Pt.II
Sale Number NO8768
Auction Date Oct 20, 2011 - Oct 20, 2011

Lot Details : Sothebys

Lot Number 83     
Author HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
Title MEN WITHOUT WOMEN.
Year Published 1927
Place Printed NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Description 8vo (190 by 130mm.), first edition, first issue, original black cloth with gold paper labels, dust-jacket (first printing), collector's black cloth chemise and black morocco-backed slipcase, minor bump to upper cover Paper
Lot Note Cohn pp.29-30; Hanneman A7(a) A fine copy in an exceptional dust-jacket of the author's second collection of short stories, containing all the themes he was to develop more fully in his later work. Cohn identifies the use of different paper stocks for the first and second issue. This copy uses the heavier first issue stock. The first printing of the dust-jacket does not quote from reviews on the front and the front flap blurb contains two errors.
Estimated Price USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00
Actual Price USD 92,500.00