Hemingway, Ernest:

$65,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

IN OUR TIME. First edition of Hemingway's second book, published as the sixth and final title in Ezra Pound's Inquest Series. This is copy number 71 of 170 numbered copies printed on Rives handmade paper, from a total printing of approximately 300 copies. Grissom records sources indicating that in addition to the 170 numbered copies offered for sale, the additional 130 copies were marred by imperfect placement of the frontis image over the watermark in the paper and were thus utilized as review and gift copies.This is an excellent association copy, bearing the early ink ownership signature of African-American poet, novelist, and journalist Claude McKay toward the top edge of the half-title (the recto of the leaf bearing the frontis). In his 1937 autobiography, A Long Way from Home, McKay records at length his impressions of Hemingway in Paris, and singles out this book in particular for recognition:"Ernest Hemingway was the most talked-about of young American writers when I arrived in Paris. He was the white hope of the ultra-sophisticates....It was therefore exciting that Ernest Hemingway had won the regard and respect of the younger artists and even of the older....in our time, that thin rare book of miniature short stories, was published, and it was the literary event among the young expatriates. I cherish an unforgettable memory of it and of Montparnasse at that time....I was excited by the meteor apparition of Ernest Hemingway. I cannot imagine any ambitious young writer

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