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HIS FIRST WORK, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Three Stories & Ten Poems. 12mo, original printed blue-grey wrappers, short clean tears at

HIS FIRST WORK, INSCRIBED AND SIGNEDHEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Three Stories & Ten Poems. 12mo, original printed blue-grey wrappers, short clean tears at front joints; uncut, very mild creasing to first three leaves (including inscription), otherwise fine; custom chemise and 1/4 gilt-lettered navy morocco slipcase. (Paris: Contact Publishing, 1923)

  • Notes: first and only edition of hemingway's first book limited to 300 copies. inscribed and signed by hemingway : "To Nelson Antrim Crawford / from Ernest Hemingway / Paris 1924." Hemingway met Crawford, a fellow journalist, while working at the Toronto Star. Crawford went on to become a book editor and anthologist. A fine copy of a fragile book Inscribed by Hemingway during his early days in Paris. A1a.

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