Hemingway (Ernest) Selected Stories
£50
London, Jonathan Cape for The Travellers’ Library, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first edition of this compilation, with no US equivalent. This volume, number 226 in the series, was the final title issued in the New Travellers’ Library, the short-lived 1950–51 revival of Jonathan Cape’s prestigious inter-war reprint series
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Very minor foxing, bookseller’s small label to foot of front pastedown; cloth very good; jacket a little rubbed with some minor marking, but overall very good.
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