The Fifth Column And the First Forty-nine Stories
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1938. This is a Near Fine copy of the first reprint edition by Collier. Blue-black cloth covewrs, stamped in the blind, with gilt lettering. Clean text; 597 pages. Edges a bit dusty, else Fine. A great reading copy and no embarrasment on your shelves. No dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Featuring Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War brilliantly evokes the tumultuous Spain of the 1930s. These works, which grew from Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in and around besieged Madrid, movingly portray the effects of war on soldiers, civilians, and the correspondents sent to cover it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001730
- Title
- The Fifth Column And the First Forty-nine Stories
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- P.F. Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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