Death in the Afternoon
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
First edition, first printing with an "A" and publisher's seal on copyright page. [xi], 517 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece by Juan Gris and 81 black and white photographs. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, dark topstain. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, fraying at head and tail of spine, bookseller ticket to back pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket with light toning and edgewear and vertical crease to spine. A magnificent copy of Hemingway's novelistic nonfiction account of Spanish bullfighting, scarce with a dust jacket in this condition. Hanneman 10A. Item #140949333
Price: $15,000