Ernest Hemingway first editions

Browse our fine collection of Ernest Hemmingway first edition books and rare books including The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and, A Farewell to Arms

The Nobel Prize-winning fiction writer Ernest Hemingway was catapulted to international fame with ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, and his seven novels and 6 short story collections that became American classics.

His economical and understated style combined with stark realism was finely tuned during his time as a foreign correspondent in Paris, a style that he termed as 'the iceberg theory and which subsequently had an immeasurable influence on 20th-century fiction.

Ernest Hemingway First Edition Books at Shapero.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

[A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.

8vo; full complement of blank pages; printing department binding of green cloth, gilt lettered lettering-piece to spine (later addition), plain paper endpapers to front (paste-residue showing and offsetting), heavier, more finished salmon ones to rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, soiling and fading to boards and spine but sound and solid; hand-written letter loosely inserted (215 x 140 mm), folded horizontally twice, creased at corners, short split to right margin of each fold, otherwise very good.

£3,750
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

The Torrents of Spring:

First edition; 8vo;, toned, slight residue and offsetting to upper endpapers from excised bookplate (ý), else near-fine; publisher's dark green cloth stamped in red, dust-jacket, professionally restored, damp-stain on rear flap, spine panel darkened, otherwise very good.

£3,250