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In Our Time; Winner Take Nothing; Men Without Women; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; The Fifth Column (Five Volume Matched Set the Short Stories of Hemingway)
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Near Fine. Hardcover. This listing is for a 5 volume matched Easton Press set that comprises the short stories of Ernest Hemingway. Set includes the books In Our Time, Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Fifth Column. All 5 volumes bound in full genuine brown leather with real gold decorations. These books are part of Easton's complete Hemingway library, we have other volumes for sale. In Our Time and Winner Take Nothing illustrated by Alan Phillips, The Snows of Kilimanjaro illustrated by Richard Powers. These 5 volumes contain Hemingway's complete short stories including "Indian Camp", "The Three Day Blow", "Soldier's Home", "Mr. And Mrs. Eliot"," My Old Man", "Big Two-Hearted River", "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", "The Light of the World", "A Way You'll Never Be", "Fathers and Sons", "The Undefeated", "Hills Like White Elephants", "The Killers", "Fifty Grand", "Ten Indians"," The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"," Up In Michigan", and "Night Before Battle" among many others. Easton Press luxury features include gilded page edges, four raised bands on the spine, moire endpapers, and a sewn-in satin bookmark. No previous owner marks. Books are unread. Set is Near Fine due to shallow imperfections to the page edges gilt, two volumes are Fine, three are Near Fine. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. Please note this is a heavy 5 volume set - no international orders. Expedited/priority orders will require substiantial extra shipping charges, please ask for a shipping quote prior to ordering. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pages .
Synopsis
In Our Time is the first published collection of Hemingway's short fiction. The book collects several of the author's short stories about American life in the early 1920's, just after WWI. A few of these stories focus on the character Nick Adams. First published in Paris in 1924 by Three Mountains Press under the title in our time - in all lower case - the first state of this work was a set of 18 vignettes and numbered 32 pages in total. Only 300 copies were printed, but due to a printing mistake, only 170 copies were released for sale. Each copy is numbered and bears the statement of limitation that reads "of 170 copies printed rives hand-made paper this is number�". The first American publication was in 1925 by Boni & Liveright. Although this is recognized as the next edition of the same work, it bears substantial differences. Twelve short stories have been added. Sixteen of the eighteen vignettes have been used as short pieces interspersed between the short stories. Two of the original vignettes have been rewritten as the short stories "The Revolutionist" and "A Very Short Story" and the work numbers 136 pages. Hemingway regretted the lowercased title and published this version as In Our Time .
Reviews
On Jan 22 2012, Jantoshak said:
"In Our Time" serves as the perfect introduction to Hemingway, and appropriately so as it was his first release entirely comprised of short stories. It's a quick read (150-200 pages) but nonetheless very powerful.
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- Good Books In The Woods
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81590
- Title
- In Our Time; Winner Take Nothing; Men Without Women; The Snows of Kilimanjaro; The Fifth Column (Five Volume Matched Set the Short Stories of Hemingway)
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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