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New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. 1/4 Cloth. 0195036808 . A bright first edition/first printing with scuffed front board, else Fine in alike dust-jacket with a hint of edgewear; Peter Griffin examines in detaila Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his relations with his parents, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I, his wartime romance with Agnes Kurowsky, his first love. With a foreword by Ernest's son, Jack Hemingway; 8vo .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fine. 1999. Advance Review Copy; First Printing. Softcover. A handsome Advance Reading Copy (ARC) in unread Fine condition; Edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison, this massive book contains 55 extraordinary short stories from the Great American authors of the 20th century, including legendary names such as Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, E. B. White, Tennessee Williams and many others; 8vo .

[New York]: Aloe Editions. Fine. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Wraps. First and only separate edition, limited to 250, this one being number 139. Printed wrappers with French flaps in Fine condition. Grissom A.47.1. A; This fable appeared first in The Double Dealer, May 3,1922 as the first appearance of Hemingway's work in an America magazine outside of his high school Tabula; 8vo; [12] pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0684137178 . A nice first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, only minor traces of use. Grissom A48.1. A; In putting together this comprehensive anthology of Hemingway's writing, editor Charles Scribner, Jr. Has been able to include uncollected materials, published after Hemingway's death. All selections have been organized around the major interests of his life and major themes of his work; 8vo; xxxii, 864 pages .

Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 1561643424 . A first printing of the first edition, showing a small manufacuring defect to rear end-paper, else about Fine in alike jacket; Nobel Laureate Hemingway always took great pleasure in writing to his family about his cats and how they were getting along. Family and pets played an important role in Hemingway's life, revealing a softer side to his character than is usually portrayed by his macho image of the hunter and fisherman ; 4to; xiv, 185, [1] pages .

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0688090249 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; When the author's father, Ernest Hemingway, dies, his widow, Mary, is left to care for the boy and manage his inheritance. Joe, the author's brother, who is 13 at the time, is authorized to act on behalf of their father and manage the money. Joe and his friends devise a plan to perpetrate a hoax on their mother and make her think their father has left her all of his money. Joe spends months planning the deception and orchestrating the events, which culminate with a grand reveal.; 8vo; FSA .

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684849216 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer; 8vo; 319, [1] pages .