[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Ernest Hemingway DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 fine 
pieces and now posted on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

HEMINGWAY,  Ernest.  DEATH  IN THE AFTERNOON.  New  York:  Charles
Scribner's  Sons  1932. Early but not first printing recently  rebound
in  half red morocco and marbled boards with new endpapers.  INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED by the author on the recto of the page listing other books
by  Hemingway: "For Colonel Roy Youmans/(Charles LeRoy)/with all  best
wishes/from  his  friend/Ernest Hemingway." Charles Leroy Youmans  was
the   author  of  DICCIONARIO   DE  APELLIDOS  CASTELLANOS,   ORIGEN Y
SIGNIFICADO,  published in Havana in 1955. A copy of this title was in
Hemingway's  library  in  Finca  Vigia,  Cuba,  Hemingway's  principal
residence  from  1939 to 1960. Loosely laid in is an original  receipt
from  Goodspeed's  Book Shop from 1983 for the purchase of this  book.
Old  dampstain  to bulked fore-edge of text, barely affecting  margins
of some pages. Near Fine in a handsome binding.               $5000.00


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