first edition
1926 · New York
by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Full Description:
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
First edition, second issue book with "stopped" spelled correctly on page 181. In second issue dust jacket with "In Our Time" on front panel. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 190 x 130 mm). [8], [1]-259, [1, blank] pp.
Original full black cloth. Gold paper label on front board and spine. Fore-edge uncut. Text very clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some wear to back outer hinge and bottom edge of back board. In the original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with small chips along edges and at the top and bottom of the spine. Jacket toned and a bit rubbed. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper, dated 1927. Still a very good copy in dust jacket, better than most.
"Considered by many critics to be [Hemingway's] finest long work, [The Sun Also Rises], deals with the lost generation of Americans who had fought in France during World War I and then had expatriated themselves from the America of Calvin Coolidge."(Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 994).
Hanneman.
HBS 69142.
$10,000. (Inventory #: 69142)
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
First edition, second issue book with "stopped" spelled correctly on page 181. In second issue dust jacket with "In Our Time" on front panel. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 190 x 130 mm). [8], [1]-259, [1, blank] pp.
Original full black cloth. Gold paper label on front board and spine. Fore-edge uncut. Text very clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some wear to back outer hinge and bottom edge of back board. In the original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with small chips along edges and at the top and bottom of the spine. Jacket toned and a bit rubbed. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper, dated 1927. Still a very good copy in dust jacket, better than most.
"Considered by many critics to be [Hemingway's] finest long work, [The Sun Also Rises], deals with the lost generation of Americans who had fought in France during World War I and then had expatriated themselves from the America of Calvin Coolidge."(Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 994).
Hanneman.
HBS 69142.
$10,000. (Inventory #: 69142)