Hemingway, Ernest

Green Hills of Africa

Hardcover, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. First Edition/First Printing with the Scribner's seal and the letter "A" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with black and gold spine titles. Cloth on spine slightly faded, spine titles bright. Some fading to front cover. Bottom corner bumped. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket has its original price of $2.75. Small tears and wrinkles to edges of dust jacket. Dust jacket bright. There were several states of the dust jacket with no priority known among them, this jacket has the wide green band on the rear cover.

Hemingway's famous book about hunting in Africa. He describes his hunts after rhino and kudu and also describes the land and people as only Hemingway can. This is also the book in which Hemingway discusses American literature and famously writes that "...All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." It was during this African safari with his wife Pauline (and paid for by Pauline's father) that Hemingway heard the story of the end of Colonel Patterson's PH career from one of his guides. Hemingway used that story and his frustrations with Pauline to write The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages. [Item #82551]

Price: $1,750.00