The Sun Also Rises

Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Publication: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926
Edition: First edition

Description: First state, with "stoppped" on page 181 uncorrected. Original black publisher's cloth, retaining the delicate gold paper labels to spine and front board. A Very Good+ copy of the book. Offsetting from a small envelope on the rear flyleaf, some discoloration to the front flyleaf as well. Housed in a black custom clamshell case.

Hemingway's classic novel - a roman à clef about a group of American and British expats in Spain, centered around the characters of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Based on Hemingway's own experiences in Spain in the 1920s, visiting there with his wife and friends and watching bullfighting, it is without question one of the great American novels. Perhaps the most important to depict the Lost Generation, the novel was an immense success – college students began to emulate the dress and manner of the characters and Hemingway was made a household name. Interestingly enough, the first printing of the novel was only around 5000 copies, but this, and a second printing of a few thousand copies, quickly sold out. "Hemingway writes as if he had never read anybody's writing, as if he had fashioned the art of writing himself" (contemporary review in The Atlantic). Very Good +

Seller ID: 7237

Subject: Books into Film, Gift Ideas, Literature, Modern Firsts