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Ernest Hemingway signed presentation copy of ”The Old Man and the Sea”, the novel perhaps most responsible for Hemingway’s Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1954, the same year he signed this copy. Hemingway writes in bold blue ink, ”For Ian / with much affection / Ernest Hemingway. / Laitokotok 1954”. The recipient is Ian Richard Whichello, a policeman in Kenya at the time of the inscription, and the place, Laitokotok, is a town in Kenya near Amboselli National Park – the site of Mount Kilimanjaro, which Hemingway and his wife visited in January 1954. Shortly after this visit the Hemingways would survive two well-known plane crashes, after which Whichello might have attended to them, given the personal nature of the inscription here. Copy published in London by the Reprint Society, 1953, with decorative illustrations throughout including the large marlin on the endpapers. Bound in teal cloth boards with silver lettering and embellishments to boards. Measures 6.25” x 8.75”. Whichello’s name on front free endpaper, a bit of foxing to endpapers and minimal expert restoration to spine. A stunning copy in very good plus condition with a bold and interesting inscription by Hemingway. Sold for $7,500.
The following are some additional Ernest Hemingway books we sold:
Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ”A Farewell to Arms” — Scarce in Original Slipcase
Ernest Hemingway signed limited first edition of his post-WWI classic, ”A Farewell to Arms”, housed in its original limited edition slipcase, with numbers matching. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Published on 27 September 1929 in a limited edition of 510 numbered copies, this being #214, signed boldly ”Ernest Hemingway” in black fountain pen. In matching slipcase with Charles Scribner’s Sons plate, again listing the limited edition as #214. Measures 6.5” x 9.5”. Some chipping to seams of slipcase, overall in very good condition. Chipping to spine label, otherwise book is near fine. Sold for $10,313.
Ernest Hemingway Signed “Men Without Women” — Dedicated in His Hand to the Son of Renowned Actress Helen Hayes
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
Ernest Hemingway signed “Men Without Women”, Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1955. Hemingway’s autograph dedication to the front free endpaper is to the son of actress Helen Hayes and reads in full: “To Jim MacArthur / With best wishes from his friend / Ernest Hemingway / Finca Vigia / San Francisco de Paula / Cuba”. Hemingway’s short story collection is bound in oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering and black print to spine. Measures 5.25″ x 7.5″. Cocking to spine, mild sunning to backstrip and wear to spine ends, else near fine. From the estate of Helen Hayes. Sold for $8,160.
Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition, First Printing of “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories” — A Very Uncommon Title Signed by Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway signed first edition, first printing of his anthology work, “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories”, an uncommon title signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, which includes Hemingway’s only full-length play “The Fifth Column” along with several stories set during the Spanish Civil War, and his first writing “Up in Michigan”. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938 with Scribner seal on copyright page and “A”, as required. Hemingway signs the front free endpaper in fountain pen, “To Jean & Harrison / best wishes always / Ernest Hemingway”. Bound in red-orange boards, book measures 6″ x 8.5″. Sunning to backstrip and light soiling to boards. Some toning and mild discoloration to interior, and front joint faintly starting. Overall in very good condition, housed in facsimile dust jacket. Sold for $5,250.
Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition of His Masterpiece, ”For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Ernest Hemingway signed first edition of ”For Whom the Bell Tolls.” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1940. First edition, first printing indicated by Scribner’s ”A” on copyright page. Hemingway signs and inscribes on the front free endpaper, ”To Dr. Nathan Ratnoff / with sincere good wishes / Ernest Hemingway”. Considered one of the finest novels of the modern movement, Hemingway’s work mulls the impact of our lives and deaths upon each other. The ultimate answer seems to lie in the title, taken from John Donne’s ”Meditation”: ”No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Book, lacking the dust jacket, is in very good condition with some foxing. Boards are uniformly toned with some soiling. Signature page is very bold with clear handwriting. Sold for $5,407.
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