Ernest Hemingway

A first edition, first printing of this mammoth anthology, including Hemingway's only play and four previously uncollected stories.

• Ernest Hemingway (American).
• New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 
• 597 pages.
• Bound in the original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, in original unclipped ($2.75) red and gilt typographic dust jacket designed by Neely, Scribner's A and seal on copyright page.

This anthology leads with Hemingway's play about an American spy in the Spanish Civil War, The Fifth Column, but the meat of the collection has always been his short stories. Two of the best of his career, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," appear first in book form here (after their appearances in Esquire and Cosmopolitan respectively in 1936). This anthology also collects many of his best short works from the previous collections In Our Time, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing, such as "Big Two-Hearted River" and "Hills Like White Elephants."