Hemingway (Ernest) Death in the Afternoon
£450
London, Cape, 1932.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Hemingway’s famous work on the art of bull-fighting, illustrated with over eighty illustrations from photographs and paintings.
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Cloth very slightly mottled; jacket slightly tanned at spine, some minor chipping and rubbing.
Plates and illustrations.
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