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SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY
Death in the Afternoon Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon "is the classic study of bullfighting in English and has influenced everything written on the subject since it first appeared." -Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY in the month of publication on the front free endpaper: "Ernest Hemingway / Cooke, Montana / September 1932". A beautiful copy in outstanding condition. Hemingway spent the summer of 1932 at Lawrence Nordquist's L-Bar-T Ranch (just inside the Wyoming border and about 12 miles from Cooke City, Montana), fishing, hunting, and writing while awaiting the publication of Death in the Afternoon on September 23, 1932. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket; custom half-leather box. With color frontispiece by Juan Gris and photographic plates throughout. Book near-fine with a few scuff marks, dust jacket with very minor edgewear and a little soiling to spine. An exceptionally fine copy of a notoriously difficult book to find in good condition, very rare signed. $27,000.
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