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

[Charles Agvent]

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON. New York: Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 1932. First Edition. 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.         $5,000.00

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