The Sun Also Rises (The Modern Library, No. 170) by Hemingway, Ernest; Canby, Henry Seidel (Introduction) - 1930

New York: The Modern Library, 1930. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1930 first thus, first state, Toledano 170.1, binding/jacket style 5d with unnumbered list on verso, 95 cent jacket price, brown Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket lightly toned (a bit more to spine), jacket edges lightly rubbed with minimal loss from spine head, small spot on fore edge. ix, 259 pp. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation.