Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn Signed Photograph.

by Hemingway, Ernest; Martha Gellhorn [Taylor Williams]

$27,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

c. 1939-1940. Rare original black and white photograph of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway and his third wife Martha Gellhorn. Black and white vintage gelatin silver print of Hemingway pointing towards the distance with one arm and the other wrapped around Martha Gellhorn. Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway in black ballpoint to the middle left, "For Taylor my pal Ernie." Inscribed above by Martha Gellhorn, "For Taylor - Love, Marty." The recipient was Hemingway’s great friend, Taylor “Beartracks” Williams, the well-known Sun Valley hunting and fishing guide. Hemingway’s friendship with Williams dated back to their meeting in Idaho in the late 1930s, after which Hemingway frequently returned to Ketchum before eventually settling there. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn met in December 1936 and soon began working alongside one another as correspondents, traveling to Spain in 1937 to report on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. At the time still married to his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, Hemingway divorced in 1939, the same year he and Gellhorn first visited Ketchum; they married the following year. During this period Gellhorn filed reports from Spain for Collier’s, while Hemingway published For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), a novel partly written in Ketchum and illustrated on its dust jacket with a photograph of him at his typewriter taken there. In 1941 the couple traveled to China on assignment for Collier’s and returned again to Ketchum before their marriage en

• Year: 1939
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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