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Men Without Women
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing, first issue with page number 3 in perfect type. Bound in publisher's black cloth with bronze title labels on upper board and spine. Very Good. Cloth lightly mottled at rear cover, faded and foot of spine and with shallow wear at spine ends, corners bumped. Narrow strip of abrasion to front paste down, pages toned. In a very Good unclipped first issue dust jacket with no reviews printed in the orange bands on the front cover; chipping to spine ends, edge tears to the top edge of the rear panel, rubbing to folds, toning to spine and a short split along the bottom end of the rear spine joint. Hemingway's second collection of short stories, ten of which previously appeared in magazines.
Synopsis
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is an early Hemingway collection containing fourteen short stories that are beginning to show the normal Hemingway themes: war and it's casualties, the interactions between men and women, sports, and violence. "Banal Story," "In Another Country," "The Killers," "Ten Indians," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Undefeated," "Fifty Grand," "In Another Country," "Now I Lay Me," "A Canary for One," and more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940027
- Title
- Men Without Women
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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