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Lot Number
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62
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Author
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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
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Title
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The Sun Also Rises.
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Year Published
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1926
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Place Printed
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New York Charles Scribner's Sons
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Description
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The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926 8vo (190 x 132 mm). Publisher's black cloth with gold paper labels in pictorial dust-jacket; spine label rubbed, very minor bumping to corners; first issue jacket rubbed with minor loss at slightly faded spine ends, few minor closed tears along bottom of rear panel, a little rubbed overall.
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Lot Note
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Hanneman A6(a); Connolly 50.) CATALOGUE NOTE First edition, first issue, inscribed to his father-in-law with a chronology of its writing and a defense of his "fairly lousy" book. James Richardson, Ernest's then wife Hadley's father, has pasted a number of reviews from papers and magazines to the front pastedown and endleaves, and some of the more negative comments have drawn a response from Hemingway on the half-title: "To James Richardson / this book which the clippings / he has pasted into it say is / fairly lousy but which was the / best the author could do in / six weeks of the summer of 1925 / Ernest Hemingway" He then records the peripatetic method of his writing it, " Started July 21 / Written in Madrid, Valencia, San Sebastian, / Hendaye and Paris - Finished September 6 - / Rewritten in December and March in / Schuurr, Voralley, Austria - / (Hotel Taube)" This tale of Post-War Americans in Europe, written in the midst of it, "... soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation ... It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and it is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term of apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six ... " (Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering).
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Provenance
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Butterfield, Feb 18, 2007, lot 274, $65,000 (lacking jacket)
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Estimated Price
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USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00
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Actual Price
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USD 110,500.00
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