Ernest Hemingway. Death In the Afternoon. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 8vo. ...
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Ernest Hemingway. Death In the Afternoon. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.8vo. Color lithograph frontispiece featuring The Bull Fighter by Juan Gris, with captioned tissue guard, and four plates from photographs of bull fights in Madrid. Publisher's black cloth with author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on the upper cover, gilt-lettered spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring the painting Toros by Roberto Domingo on the upper cover.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner's "A" and printer's device to the copyright page.
Condition: Minimal edgewear to boards, final three leaves creased. Dust jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), rebacked with paper and restored with upper and lower edges retouched and some work in facsimile.
Reference: Hanneman A8a.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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