In Our Time.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Item Number: 119099

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

Early reprint of Hemingway’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the crown of the spine. A nice example.

“No other writer stepped so suddenly into fame, or destroyed with such insouciance so many other writers or ways of writing or became such an immediate symbol of an age” (Connolly, The Modern Movement 50). This superb collection of stories presented a number of Hemingway’s finest short pieces to the American public, including “Indian Camp,” “The Battler,” “The Three Day Blow,” and both parts of “Big Two-Hearted River.” In 1924 the Three Mountains Press in Paris published the similarly titled in our time in an edition of only 170 copies; that much-shorter work contained only the vignettes that are here called “Chapters” and interspersed among the 15 longer stories collected here for the first time. (Two of the 18 pieces that originally appeared in in our time were given titles and included here as full stories: “A Very Short Story” and “The Revolutionist.”). Without rare original dust jacket. Hanneman A3a.