Search Results: sun also rises by ernest hemingway

New York: Scribners,, 1926. A simply solar copy First edition, first printing, first issue, with an unimpeachable example of the iconic jacket, bright, fine, and untouched by restoration or repair. Hemingway's second novel is a roman à clef, drawing on his and Hadley's tumultuous time in Paris in the 1920s. The book is dedicated to Hadley and quotes as its epigraph Gertrude Stein's enduring description of Hemingway and his peers as "a lost generation". "The Sun Also Rises did not rock the country, but it received a number of hat-in-the-air reviews and it soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation... how much of the novel seems as marvelously fresh as when it first appeared! Count Mippipopolous, his wound, and his champagne; the old couple from Montana on their first trip abroad; the busload of Basque peasants; the whole beautiful episode of the fishing trip in the mountains, in the harsh sunlight, with bright water tumbling over the dam; then by contrast the dark streets of Pamplona… Read More

New York: Scribners, 1926. Near fine./Very good.. A near fine first edition, first issue (three p's on stoppped), in a very good first edition dust jacket with all first issue points (In our Times)and no restoration. With a paper inscribed and signed by Hemingway laid in. Some tape on inside of dj. Two bookplates attached to front paste-down. Rear gutter of book cracked open. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

London:: Jonathan Cape,, [1927].. First English edition.. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom folding box.. Bookplate to front pastedown; some staining from binder's adhesive of rear pastedown; else an unworn copy with some fading to the blue cloth to the spine and edges. The extremely rare dust jacket is slightly worn at the top of the backstrip, which is somewhat tanned.. 8vo,.

First edition, first issue in the original first-issue dust jacket. Issue points present including title page matching the 1926 on the copyright page; Scribner's seal on the copyright page; bottom of front panel of jacket with "In Our Times", which was corrected in later issues to "In Our Time"; stopped misspelled as "stoppped" at p. 181, line 26; "Book Three" at p. 235 spelled out instead of roman numeral "III"; and down-stairs misspelled as "down-staris" at last line on p. 169. Pages intact without tears, creases, or markings, some light foxing. Unclipped dust jacket with original price present ($2.00), with 2 tape repairs, split at joint of jacket spine visible from reverse, chipping at edges, less than centimeter loss at head and tail, tanned. Hemingway's first novel. When it was published in 1926, The New York Times described it as, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Later printing of Hemingway's first major novel published as Fiesta in the United Kingdom. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack Lonsdale with best wishes Ernest Hemingway Ritz 10/9/56." On this date, Hemingway was in Madrid for a bull fight with his wife Mary. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, owner name. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926, and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Though it initially received mixed reviews, it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" (Meyers, 1985). The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcee Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman a clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation,"… Read More

New York: The Modern Library, 1930. Modern Library Edition. Vintage 1930 printing published by The Modern Library. Signed by the author Ernest Hemingway on a professionally tipped in page. Measures approximately 6.75" x 4.5", with 259 numbered pages. The book is in very good plus condition. Minor foxing to the edges of the textblock. Textblock is clean and well preserved. The scarce original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Moderate chipping to the spine ends. Minor staining and surface wear to the panels. "The Sun Also Rises" follows a group of young American and British expatriates as they wander through Europe in the mid 1920s. This book has been called his greatest work and most important novel. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (N8-51).

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. first. hardcover. very good. First edition, first issue, with "ppp" in stoppped on p. 181. Book very good, some rubbing, cut-out taped to front free end paper, partial cracking to gutters. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing, first issue with 3 p's in "stoppped" on page 181. 259 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with bronze title labels. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, slight fading to spine and faint soiling to cloth, light wear to title labels, indentations to top edge of textblock, pages tanned. The first appearance of the classic modernist novel.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound/No Jacket. First issue, first state with "stoppped" on line 26, page 181. Bound in dark green morocco, with 5 raised bands on the spine, and incised gilt lettering and borders. Deckled fore-edges, top edges gilt. A portion of the original cloth and paper spine and front panel labels are bound in at the rear of the volume. Heavy patterned endpapers. This volume has "Charles Scribner Copy" written on the second endpaper (we cannot verify this). The leather has a few areas of light rubbing and there is occasional light foxing, although on pages 226-227 it is more pronounced. Still this is a lovely, well preserved copy in near fine condition.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. first. hardcover. very good. First edition, 1926 on title and copyright page. Book very good, Previous owner's name and date on half-title page, attached to rear free end paper is a typed poem by Malcolm Cowley. Laid-in is a cutout from the back of a dust jacket for this book with Hemingway on it, and also laid in is the photo of a famous matador after whom the matador in this book was partially modeled. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, early printing of Hemingway's first major novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, Hemingway signature in gilt to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. The Sun Also Rises was published by Scribner's in 1926, and a year later in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape under the title Fiesta. Though it initially received mixed reviews, it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" (Meyers, 1985). The fictional plot depicts a love story between war-wounded and impotent Jake Barnes and the promiscuous divorcee Lady Brett Ashley, but the novel is a roman a clef; the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. Hemingway proposes that the "Lost Generation," considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in original black cloth boards. In new facsimile dust jacket. First edition, first printing, with all the first edition points (1929 on title page and copyright page, "stoppped" on page 181). Binding is straight and firm. Corners are sharp. Black cloth is sunned along edges and has light wear. Front label is darkened, the tip of one corner is folded over, and there is light wear to it. Spine label is darkened and has three vertical cracks. Pages are clean, paper is lightly tanned. From the library of writer James Alden Thompson and Margaret Carrigan Thompson, with their names inked on front pastedown and dated 1926. There is also an inked message on front free endpage that reads, "To Jim, Please read and tell me what you think of this [Ceegee?]." Small bookstore label in corner of rear pastedown page from Gelber Lilienthal Bookstore, San Francisco. 8vo. 259 pp. A nice copy.

30 Bedford Square, London: Jonathan Cape , 1927. Stated at copyright: "First Published in May MMXXVII, Second Impression September MMXXVII". Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles w/bands, moderate shelf wear, discoloration, some spine sunning. Pages very good with attractive toning; no writing. Dedication page and Book I title page remains uncut at bottom edge. Antiquarian bookstore label inside back cover: "Brentano's, Booksellers & Stationers, 37, Avenue de l'Opera, Paris". Very apropos and intriguing when considering Hemingway and the Lost Generation following WWI were creating and mingling in this very time and place of 1920's Paris. Bind fine; hinges intact. Preserved in facsimile of first edition wrapper; protected in new clear sleeve. Good rare second impression in fine facsimile dust wrapper. Hemingway's great post-World War I novel, first major work and the classic novel of the "lost generation". A vivid exploration of the moral… Read More

New York: Modern Library, 1930. First Modern Library edition and first printing. Hardcover. While his earlier writings had been well received it was with this novel that Hemingway gained the literary accolades that launched him towards the rarified stratosphere of winning the Nobel Prize a few decades later. Features an introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. A clean near fine copy in flexible brown cloth boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with some edge tears, tiny chips and some other light wear. The rear panel mentions only 170 titles. A nicer than usual copy.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926 First edition, second state.Two of the three first issue points are present for the book: "stopped" is correctly spelled on pg 181, "down-staris" on pg 169, "BOOK THREE" on pg 235 No foxing. Owner inscription and paste down on the front end paper. On the inside of the covers there are remains of a protective sleeve. Slight forward lean across the binding. Binding is tight.A very nice copy of this rare edition.

THE SUN ALSO RISES, Scribners, 1926, first edition (second issue with stopped spelled correctly on page 181), some light wear and creasing to the spine label, some lightening to a small area of the rear cover, else just about a vg copy in as new facsimile dust-wrapper. 

Scribner's, 1926. hardcover. Very Good. 1926 Scribner's first edition first printing second state matching 1926 title and verso, "stoppped" corrected, "down-stairs" is not. Lightly shaken, light spine cock. Light fox/tone. No marks. No jacket. E42 Please email for photos.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 259pgs. Has the correct spelling "stopped" on page 181, line 26, indicating First Edition, second state. Black board with gold paper label on front panel, and spine paper label, which are in excellent condition. The upper right corner of the front panel is bumped, lesser on the preliminary pages. The text block and endpaprs are in excellent shape. "The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. It portrays American and British expatriates who travel along the Camino de Santiago from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. It is exemplary of his writing; concise, straightforward, and realistic, a departure from other writers of his time. Many have referred to this style as the iceberg theory, a simple style of writing that reveals minimal detail on the surface, with deeper meaning hiding below.. First Edition 2nd Issue. Hardcover. Very… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, earliest text. Crown octavo, pp.286. Elegantly hand-bound in full red morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contents mostly clean with a few minor spots/marks, vintage tape repairs to top corner of the first gathering leaves, some browning to half-title, minor abrasion to same corner. Very good, in an attractive recent full leather binding. The British title for the novel published as 'The Sun Also Rises' in America. The text of the UK first printing features the misprint 'Stones' for 'Stories', page 2, line 2 (the verso of the half title). A particularly scarce book. Hanneman. Listed in The Telegraph's 20 Best Travel Books of All Time.

[New York:: Universe Books,, 1970.. First edition; No. 26 of 100 signed and numbered copies.. Very fine; still in the publisher's tissue (tattered) and plain portfolio (worn). . 15 x 12-1/2 inches.. Hand-printed by Helmut Ackermann and signed by the Artist..