Islands In The Stream.

HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

Item Number: 117335

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.

First edition of Hemingway’s autobiographical novel in three parts, published posthumously. Octavo, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by the wife of Ernest Hemingway, Mary, “For Jack Millward from a possibly presumptious friend of the Author Mary Hemingway 6th, December, 1970.” “The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable signed.

Islands in the Stream was the first of the posthumously published works of Ernest Hemingway. It was originally intended to revive Hemingway’s reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951. The work, rough but seemingly finished, was found by Mary Hemingway among 332 works Hemingway left behind at his death. Islands in the Stream was meant to encompass three stories to illustrate different stages in the life of its main character, Thomas Hudson. It was made into the 1977 film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred George C. Scott, Hart Bochner, Claire Bloom, Gilbert Roland, and David Hemmings.