"THE MOST LITERARY HUNTING TRIP ON RECORD": FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY'S GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.

First edition of Hemingway's gripping account of big game hunting, in bright original dust jacket.

Between the publication of Winner Take Nothing (1933) and To Have and Have Not (1937), "Ernest Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and the ungainly rhinoceros and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa… It is the most literary hunting trip on record" (New York Times). Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination" (Foreword). First edition, first printing: with Scribner "A" on copyright page. Grissom's dust jacket "C," with green band on rear panel not extending through 14 lines of text, no priority determined. Grissom A13.1.a. Hanneman 13A. Bruccoli & Clark I:179.

Cloth with sunning to the fugitive green ink on the spine and board edges, as is common, a few tiny spots of soiling; price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to edges, very faint toning to spine, one barely perceptible closed tear to rear panel near spine fold. An extremely good copy.