in our time.
$78,654 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
Paris: printed at the Three Mountains Press and for sale at Shakespeare & Company; London, William Jackson,, 1924. His critically successful second book First edition, sole printing, review copy with the secretarial presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, "Compliments of the author", and the limitation page stamped "Review Copy" in purple underneath the printed notice that 170 copies were printed on Rives handmade paper. The fragile nature of this production means that copies in such well-preserved condition are seldom encountered. Grissom states there were an additional 130 "damaged" copies with the watermark discernible on the frontispiece that were consequentially given away as gifts or review copies. This copy is among the 170 "perfect" copies without the watermarked frontispiece, evidencing that the publishers took not only from damaged stock when sending copies out for review. Considered one of the most original short story collections in 20th-century literature, in our time established Hemingway as a writer of great promise. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Maxwell Perkins after reading the work, "this is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemmingway [sic]... its remarkable & I'd look him up right away. He's the real thing" (10 October 1924). Edmund Wilson's review shows that the essence of Hemingway was already acknowledged at this early stage. "His prose is of the first distinction, [demonstrating] a naiveté of language often passing into the colloqu
- Year: 1924
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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