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Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring....
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Description
Inscribed with a Lengthy Inscription by Ernest Hemingway to His Friend, Dr. Don Carlos Guffey
Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring. A Romantic Novel in the Honor of the Passing of a Great Race. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.First edition, one of 1,250 copies of Hemingway's first novel and second regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "Dear Dr. Guffey- / Scribner's / gave me $500 advance Royalties on / this book when it was published in / 1926 or 1927 or whatever year it was and in / my royalty statement for 1931 I still owed / them about $9.00 - Ernest Walsh, the late / Ernest Walsh, wanted me to let him serialize / it in This Quarter which he edited with / Ethel Moorhead and published with her / money and when I could not let / him because there was not time since / his magazine came out at very irregular intervals he attacked it / in The New Masses as the Cheapest / Book I Ever Read - well, well, / well, well, well - / Ernest Hemingway." Octavo. [viii], [144] pages.
Publisher's full black cloth, front cover ruled in blind, front cover and spine lettered in red, In the original pictorial dust jacket. Mild rubbing to jacket, one short tear to jacket headcap, minor rubbing to cloth, front hinge just barely starting (about half an inch at the top), several pages unopened, else a near fine copy. The Goodwin copy, housed in his characteristic red chemise and slipcase.
Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, a respected physician from Kansas City, was the Hemingway family doctor, delivering both of Hemingway's children (via caesarean section) from his wife Pauline. Guffey was also a bibliophile and was one of the first important collectors of Hemingway's work (including books, letters, and manuscripts). Guffey would have Hemingway write something lengthy and notable about a book's genesis or publication in the books he collected, thus making books from his collection especially desirable.
Hanneman A4a.
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2011 April New York Signature Rare Books Auction #6053 (go to Auction Home page)
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