Hemingway, Ernest

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Hard Cover, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938, 1938. First Edition. Very Good.

First edition, early printing (lacking "A" to copyright page). Presentation copy from the estate of Bolivian mining heiress Countess du Boisrouvray. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway on the front endpaper: 'To Cricri with Love Ernest'. Original orange publisher's cloth. Near fine with a few leaves lightly creased, Brentano's Paris small sticker to rear pastedown, light spotting to edges and endpapers in an unclipped jacket with some chipping to the spine, a short tear on the lower spine panel. Signed copies of this title are very scarce.

Item #EH011       Price: $6,500.00