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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Men Without Women.
PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Men Without Women. [6] 7-185, [1]; 6 pages advertisements. 8vo, 1/2 reddish-brown morocco over sky blue, rose, and cream marbled paper, gilt-stamped on spine only, top edge gilt, others rough trimmed, front upper outer tip water damaged, bleeding into marble, paper a bit chipped along spine edge on front and rear covers, some glue bleed-through near edges; scattered moderate foxing, mostly to endpapers, fore edge, and preliminaries; original slipcase of matching marbled paper over board, lacks bottom panel, some dampstaining, paper chipped along lower front panel into spine; custom plain cloth folding box. The Albatross Modern Continental Library Volume 343. Leipzig: The Albatross, 1937
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Notes: the only known example of this publisher''s presentation copy. The colophon states: "Of the present special edition, which is not for sale, of this Albatross Book twelve copies only were printed upon handmade paper and bound in half-leather. This copy was printed for the author." It is not known how the copies were distributed, all to the author or a portion thereof. Aside from the difference in binding from the first, recorded, printing of orange, white, and black wrappers, this copy contains laid paper endpapers with vertical chain lines, and the text is printed on slightly thicker tan wove paper; a sheet of thin tissue paper is laid between front endpapers.
Albatross Books was begun in 1931 by publishers Kurt Enoch and John Holroyd-Reece. Their imprint, The Modern Continental Library, published and distributed on the Continent only, was hugely successful. The other works by Hemingway that Albatross Modern Continental Library printed were The Sun Also Rises (volume 320), For Whom the Bell Tolls (volume 26), and A Farewell to Arms (volume 4935). With presses in Leipzig, Paris, and Bologna, the house could have been a tremendously successful financial venue for Hemingway if more titles were published. Only two institutional copies of the regular edition of Men Without Women are recorded.
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