Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises]

30 Bedford Square, London: Jonathan Cape , 1955. 1955 third printing of the 1954 reissue, and ninth U. K. printing overall from Jonathan Cape, with superb jacket and design. Magic hour orange full cloth boards, impressed black silhouette cover design of bull mirroring wrapper, red cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Pages near fine, no writing; slight fox to exterior text block. Bind fine; hinges intact. Classic original wrapper, light shelf wear, rub; unclipped 21s net, protected in new clear sleeve. Features dynamic 1950's silhouette design with white horns on deep orange wrapper with flourishing titles. Back panel features title in big red letters. Front flap features then contemporary summary reviews of this title. Back panel features list of Hemingway titles in print. Very good early printing in near fine original wrapper. Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation". A vivid exploration of the moral wasteland of Europe in the Twenties, and of the sterility and despair of postwar life. The hero, Jake Barnes, has suffered a war injury leaving him impotent. Hopelessly in love with the seductive and flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley, Jake leaves Paris to accompany Brett, her drunken fiancé, and an American boxer to Pamplona, watching as she falls for a young bullfighter. The expatriate crowd that Hemingway portrays so vividly passes their lives in an aimless alcoholic haze, against which the local fiestas and the running of the bulls seem, by contrast, full of vitality--a quality that is alien to them. The settings are romantic - the bull ring, the Paris streets, the bars, cafés and hotels - but Hemingway invests them all with a disillusion that undercuts the glamour of expatriate life. Printed in Great Britain by Bradford and Dickens, London, Bound by A. W. Bain and Co., Ltd. 286 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.