Hemingway, Ernest

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

To Have and to Have Not. London: Jonathan Cape, 1937
ink,paper

8vo. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth; cocked, wear along bottom edge, staining to fore-edge. Original dust jacket printed in yellow, white and orange; creasing to extremities, few short, closed tears with tape on verso.

Literature

Hanneman A40A (top edge unstained in this copy)

Catalogue Note

first English edition, presentation copy inscribed while Hemingway covered the Spanish Civil War: "To Pete from his guest (and friend and fellow beer consumer) Ernest Hemingway Madrid November 1937."

Hemingway spent a great deal of 1937 in Spain, sending newspaper dispatches on the Spanish Civil War and supporting the Lincoln Brigade. His then mistress Martha Gellhorn joined him in Madrid (she was on assignment for Collier's) and they entertained lavishly from a suite in the Hotel Florida.

By the end of the year he had written The Fifth Column, his only play, collected material for what would become the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, destroyed his friendship with John Dos Passos and was well on the way to wrecking his second marriage.