The Sun Also Rises
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
First edition, first printing, first state with "stoppped" on page 181, line 26. [vi], 259 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with bronze title labels to front board and spine. Very Good with lean and fading to spine, moderate rubbing to spine and extremities, and 2 small stains to upper edge of textblock. Ownership inscriptions to front endsheet, binding cracked at p. 25, overopened throughout. Clipping from dust jacket tipped to back pastedown, remnant of label to back free endpaper. Hanneman 6A.
The first edition of Hemingway's first full length novel, which follows a group of disillusioned and dissolute Americans as they wander through Spain. This copy was owned by Jeneve M. Melvin, a Massachusetts schoolgirl who was not quite sixteen when the book was published in October 1926. Did she wish, reading the book in her dormitory, that she was old enough to be a member of the Lost Generation?
Price: $6,500