Winner Take Nothing [First Edition]
de Hemingway, Ernest
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First printing with A and Scribner's seal at copyright in original wrapper. Very attractive. Black coated cloth boards, bright gold labels at cover and spine, light shelf wear, rub. Deckled pages very good with attractive toning; no writing. Small antiquarian label in gothic print adhered inside cover: "Cohen Brothers". Red top edge. String-bind fine, square; hinges intact. Dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub, discoloration, few mended closed tears; unclipped 2.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Small chip to lower front panel near "H". First state in black, red and white with Laurence Stallings "Death in the Afternoon Review" review at back panel. Rare very good first edition in near very good wrapper. Ernest Hemingway's third collection of short stories and first new book of fiction since the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been previously published. Characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in western USA. Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and excelled in this medium with this selection revealing some of his best. 244 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Sinopsis
Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after his most recent novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932).
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021734
- Título
- Winner Take Nothing [First Edition]
- Autor
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1933
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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- Shelf Wear
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...