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Green Hills of Africa.
by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1935. Hunting and literature First edition, first printing, of the author's recollection of his 1933-34 big-game hunting trip in Tanganyika, in modern-day Tanzania. "Mixing humor, flashbacks, literary pontification, and self-exposure with his fable on aesthetics, Hemingway once again wrote outside the reception range of the critics" (ANB). It includes literary reminiscences and sharp criticism of other writers. This copy is in Grissom's jacket C (no priority), with the green band on the rear panel not encroaching on the text of a shortened blurb. It was serialized in Scribner's Magazine between May and November 1935. The book edition was published in October. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, spine decorated in gilt, facsimile of the author's signature stamped on front cover in gilt. With dust jacket. Line drawings by Edward Shenton. Spine and edges lightly faded, as usual, internally fresh. A near-fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased dust jacket, price-clipped, one short closed tear and couple of tiny chips, soiling to rear panel, the green colours still bright, very good indeed. Czech, African Big Game 1785 to 1950, 74; Grissom A13.1.a; Hanneman A13.
Synopsis
Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is basically a journal of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: Pursuit and Conversation, Pursuit Remembered, Pursuit and Failure, and Pursuit as Happiness, each of which plays a different role in the story.
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- Title
- Green Hills of Africa.
- Author
- HEMINGWAY, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
- Date Published
- 1935
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