[Rarebooks] FS: DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON Ernest Hemingway INSCRIBED to a fellow ambulance driver and CIA agent

[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 met 
Hemingway when he was an ambulance driver in World War I for the French, 
in their "American Field Service" program, while Hemingway drove for 
Italy's similar program. Later, in World War II, Youmans flew a small 
plane posing as an archaeologist but in fact was a CIA undercover agent. 
He maintained his friendship with Hemingway, spending much time with him 
in bars in Cuba. He was also 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. 
(#014337)        $5,000.00

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