Death in the Afternoon

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Lot 272 | Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway, 1932
HEMINGWAY. Ernest (1899-1961). Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,1932.

First edition, first printing of Hemingway's exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw as closer to ceremony than sport. It was his favorite among his books. Hanneman A10a.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (spine panel a touch darkened, a little chipping to extremities, some neat repairs to verso); custom box. Provenance: Maxwell Steinhardt (lawyer and bibliophile, 1890-1977; bookplate).
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