To Have and Have Not.
"Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet": First Edition of To Have and Have Not; Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Item Number: 4394
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.
First edition, second issue with the Scribner’s seal. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edna Florence Steffens with sincere best wishes Ernest Hemingway.” Light wear to the cloth, near fine, in a very good dust jacket with black-and-white photograph of Hemingway by Joris Ivens on the back panel. Hanneman 14A.
"In To Have and Have Not, Hemingway for the first time showed an interest in a possible solution of social problems through collective action" (Hart, 327). basis for the Howard Hawks film co-scripted by William Faulkner and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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