Accession number
PML 185607
Creator
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Published
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover title; text printed on 476 leaves on rectos only, with no title or copyright page.
The publisher's Book-of-the-Month Club proof, prepared by Scribner's for the Book-of-the-Month Club judges, with a typed note pasted onto p. 476 explaining that the last two chapters were absent pending completion by the author and signed "Editor". Cf. Grissom.
The publisher's Book-of-the-Month Club proof, prepared by Scribner's for the Book-of-the-Month Club judges, with a typed note pasted onto p. 476 explaining that the last two chapters were absent pending completion by the author and signed "Editor". Cf. Grissom.
Description
476 leaves ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink at head of front wrapper: Unrevised proof.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Proof in beige wrappers, with label affixed to rear wrapper, printed in red and black: Please report on this book not later than date given in covering post card ... Mail one copy of your report to Miss Amy Loveman ... the other two to Book-of-the-Month Club ...".
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