In Our Time
Three Mountains Press, 1924.
First edition, number 68 of 170 copies. Original paper covered boards printed in red with titles in black, in original publisher's unprinted glassine. A fine copy, exceptionally bright and crisp with just a trace of wear to the base of the spine and the customary offsetting to endpapers. Housed in chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.
Hemingway's second book, published in an edition of only 170 copies, being the final part of a series of books published by the Three Mountains Press under the editorship of Ezra Pound, entitled 'The Inquest into the state of contemporary English prose'. Having got hold of a copy, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote immediately to Maxwell Perkins, "This is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemmingway [sic]
its remarkable + I'd look him up right away. He's the real thing." (10th October 1924)
The fragile nature of this production means copies have not generally worn well, so copies as well preserved as this, particularly in the original glassine, are very seldom encountered.
PROVENANCE: Lester Douglas (American book designer, bookplate to front pastedown).
Stock ID: 37319
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