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This is a first edition, later-printing book clad, somehow, in a first-printing, first-state dust jacket, that I found in the wild from an owner who apparently bought the book new. My position is that if anyone were to try any funny stuff, it would be to get a (cheap, readily-available) jacketless copy of a first-printing book, and stick it in this (rare, unavailable) jacket, creating a (very expensive, fake) true-first-edition copy. This is the opposite. If anyone switched the book, they suck at dishonest bookselling.
This is the version of the book bound in tan buckram with the standard red and black text and design on the spine. The dust jacket is uncut with original price featuring a photo of Hemingway on the back without the photo credit. All particulars check out for both the book and the dust jacket, providing no clues as to why this particular book ended up in this particular jacket. Tight, square, solid binding without significant issues except an ex libris pastedown, a hint of foxing at… Read More
