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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

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£ 20 000
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09.12.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 262 | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

in our time. 1924

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924.



First edition, limited issue, number 81 of 170 copies on Rives hand-made paper. A fine copy. Ezra Pound had persuaded William Bird (the owner of The Three Mountains Press, to whom he had been introduced by Hemingway) to publish a series of six volumes by contemporary writers, under the collective title 'The Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose'. Hemingway contributed six ‘miniatures' which had been published in the Little Review no. IX (Spring, 1923), and added twelve more, giving a total of eighteen pieces on the author's experiences of newspapers, war, and bullfighting. In a contemporary review, the critic Edmund Wilson heralded Hemingway's arrival as a prose writer of ‘the first distinction... In the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time, [he] has almost invented a form of his own ... [The] book has more artistic dignity than any other that has been written by an American about the period of the war’ (Kenneth S. Lynn, Hemingway, New York, 1987, p. 268).



While 300 copies were printed, just 170 ‘perfect’ copies were published – the remainder having been damaged ‘by the imposition of the watermark against the frontispiece’ (Grissom). Grissom A.2.1.a; Hanneman A2a; Connolly, The Modern Movement 49 (describing the expanded 1925 edition).



Octavo (260 x 165mm). Woodcut portrait frontispiece after Henry Strater. Original printed paper boards (trivial rubbing at extremities); housed in cloth slipcase.

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