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ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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Green Hills of Africa

"THE MOST LITERARY HUNTING TRIP ON RECORD"

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York, 1935.

First edition of Hemingway's gripping account of big game hunting, inscribed to the president of the American Museum of Natural History, "For F. Trubee Davison / hoping (I won't bore him too much and) it will remind him a little of Africa / Ernest Hemingway." $25,000.

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Two Autograph Letters Signed

"THIS FALL, WINTER AND NOW SPRING… IS THE BEST APPRENTICESHIP I'VE EVER SERVED": TWO SUPERB HEMINGWAY AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS BIOGRAPHER CHARLES FENTON

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Two Autograph Letters Signed. Kenya, December 5, 1953 (both letters written on the same day, one at "1500" hours, the other at "1700").

Two superb Hemingway autograph letters signed (as "Ernest Hemingway" and "E.H.") to Charles Fenton at Yale University, in which he discusses his safari, the Masai, the Nobel Prize, writing and criticism. Hemingway had taken a copy of Fenton's dissertation, titled "The Literary Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway," with him on his safari in Africa; the following year Fenton published this work as a book under the same title. $18,500.

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Unfinished, unsigned autograph draft of a letter

"IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO HAVE A BOOK LIKE THIS LAST ONE COME OUT BECAUSE THEN YOU CAN SEE WHO REALLY LIKES WHAT YOU WRITE AND KNOWS WHAT IT IS ABOUT—AND WHO MERELY ACTED AS THOUGH THEY LIKED IT TO BE IN FASHION"

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Unfinished, unsigned autograph draft of a letter. Piggott, Arkansas, December 25, [1930, 1932, or 1934].

Unfinished, unpublished autograph two-page draft of an unsent and unsigned letter from Hemingway to Fanny Butcher, in which he references the famous lost manuscripts that his first wife Hadley had left in a suitcase stolen after boarding a train to visit him in the early 1920s and discusses writing, criticism and critics: "Now that they have replaced religion with economics as the opium of the people there is an entirely new school of criticism (with new reasons for disliking the same things) but if you can write and will write they can prove you are no good by any system of criticism they invent and it will not hurt your stuff if it is worth anything." $12,500.

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Autograph letter signed

"IF YOU EVER BECOME DISSATISFIED WITH YOUR LIFE WITH BENCHLEY AND THAT WHOLE GIN CRAZED SATURNALIA AND WANT TO LEAD A CLEANER LIFE BRING YOUR SHORTWAVE SET DOWN TO KEY WEST AND WE COULD TRY TO TURN AN HONEST PENNY"

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Autograph letter signed. St. Louis, circa October 1931.

Fine autograph letter signed from Hemingway to Charles MacGregor, secretary to Robert Benchley, one of the members of the famed Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s. $9500.

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Farewell to Arms

“THAT MUSICAL CRYSTAL-CLEAR STYLE, BLOWN LIKE GLASS FROM THE WHITE-HEAT OF VIOLENCE”

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929.

First trade edition, first issue, of the novel that "placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters," in scarce unrestored first-issue dust jacket. An exceptional copy. $9500.

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