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Hemingway, Ernest.
The Fifth Column And The First Forty-Nine Stories.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 11390
FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 590. Publishers’ deep cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in price-clipped printed dust-jacket. A very good copy in a good dust-jacket. Contents clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. Lower edge and spine tail a little bruised. Small mark to front free end-paper where label has been removed. Dust-jacket nicked & creased with wear and loss at spine tips and corners; a few minor ink-stains to reverse. Hemingway’s first full-length play together with all his short stories, several of which appear in this volume for the first time. Scarce, especially in the dust-jacket. £125.00