Hemingway, Ernest

The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926

8vo. Publisher's black cloth with printed gold foil labels. Original dust-jacket with iconic design by Cleonike Damianakes; very fine with only the slightest of rubbing along folds, a crisp, unfaded, and wholly unrestored example and very scarce thus. In a full-morocco slipcase.

Connolly 50; Hanneman A6a

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First edition, first issue in a very fine, bright and unrestored jacket.

"The Sun Also Rises did not rock the country, but it received a number of hat-in-the-air reviews and it soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation.... It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six" (Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering pp. 70-73).

The present is likely the finest obtainable copy of this modern high spot.