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HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Death in the Afternoon.

Death in the Afternoon.

Stock Code 123286

London, Jonathan Cape, 1932.

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Hemingway's exploration of professional bullfighting, a spectacle he saw more as a heroic, tragic ceremony than as a sport.

First UK edition, first impression; 8vo (22.5 x 15.5 cm); colour frontispiece after 'The Bullfighter' painting by Juan Gris, 81 black & white photographic illustrations, one or two light marginal thumb-smudges, else unmarked internally; finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, modern half red morocco over red cloth boards lined in gilt, spine in 6 one-line gilt-panelled compartments with gilt ribs and lettering, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, very minor signs of wear to extremities, else very good; 360pp.

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