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ONE OF ONLY 170 COPIES
in our time "In the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time, [he] has almost invented a form of his own... I am inclined to think that this little book has more artistic dignity than anything else about the period of the war that has yet been written by an American." -Edmund Wilson, 1924 FIRST EDITION, one of only 170 numbered copies, printed on Rives hand-made paper, of Hemingway's second book. With woodcut portrait frontispiece after Henry Strater. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. Tall octavo, original publisher's decorated tan paper boards; custom cloth box. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few spots of rubbing to spine, one corner lightly bumped; boards a little bowed; usual discoloration to endpapers. A very nice copy. $36,500.
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