Hemingway, Ernest

Winner Take Nothing. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1933

8vo. Publisher's black cloth, printed gold foil labels; spine label rubbed and slightly soiled, corners bumped and rubbed as are spine ends. Original dust-jacket; loss at corners and top of spine panel with rubbing along folds. In a quarter-morocco case.

Hanneman A12a

A presentation copy of the first edition: "To Priscilla Calmer / wishing her very best luck, / Ernest Hemingway / Paris / November 20 / 1933."

Ned Calmer wrote for the Paris Herald, trying his hand at fiction on the side but struggling to support his invalid wife Priscilla and infant daughter. Hemingway took an instant liking to the family when they met in 1932, going so far as to quietly give Calmer $350 for the family's passage from Paris to New York so that they could attend the publication of the young author's first novel the next year. They remained friends through to the 1950's.

Hemingway's third collection of stories, containing the classics "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and "A Way You'll Never Be."  The present is rather uncommon inscribed, with only three copies sold at auction over the last three decades.