The Essential Hemingway

First edition. 447pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Slight darkening and foxing to edges of text block. Neat contemporary inscription (1947) to verso of half-title. Some cracking to gutter leading to half-title. Binding tight; no loose pages. Jacket clipped to leading corners of both flaps; slightly rubbed and soiled and with some chips to edges. Minor loss to head of spine area and a couple of slits to spine folds. *** Scarce first edition of this Hemingway anthology, comprising Fiesta (in full), fragments of three other novels and 23 short stories. Not published in the US.