Accession number
PML 196127
Creator
Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984.
Published
New York : Random House, c1948.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors, and on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Notes
Hemingway's annotated copy.
"Manufactured...by H. Wolff, New York, designed by Marshall Lee, First printing"--T.p. verso.
"Manufactured...by H. Wolff, New York, designed by Marshall Lee, First printing"--T.p. verso.
Description
689 pages ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Hemingway's pencil annotations and marks appear on twenty-eight pages between pp. 468 and 602. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: For Carlo from Ernesto / Marked from 527 on (annotated EH) / 2/3/49 22/1/50 / San Martino de Codroipo / EH. / Museum Piece - Do not Fold / EH.
Provenance
Ernest Hemingway; presentation inscription on front flyleaf from Hemingway to Carlo Kechler; by descent to Alessandro Kechler.
Summary
Traces three young men, two Americans and one German, from 1938 to 1945 after they meet as soldiers in a Bavarian forest in World War II.
Binding
Publisher's red and black cloth, stamped in gold, top edge red (wanting the dust jacket). Housed in 1/4 black morocco case and chemise, red leather spine label lettered in gold.
Classification
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