Men Without Women

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Very good +/good. Fifth or sixth printing (both had title pages dated 1928), twelvemo size, 244 pp., in publisher's jacket. Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Among other work, he published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works; many of this works are considered classics of American Literature. Hemingway has become, in the minds of many, the "man's man" who loved to fight and considered mountaineering, bullfighting, and car racing the only "true" sports. Hemingway's life had far too many twists and turns to recount here; a brilliant (truncated) and complicated man, he has left a literary heritage of incredible depth; his biographer stated that "he left stories and novels so starkly moving that some have become part of our cultural heritage".

This work, "Men Without Women", was an immediate publishing success. Within two weeks of its release in 1927 (with the title page dated 1927) 7,300 copies had sold; by the end of 1927 (there were four separate printings that year, each with the title page dated 1927) over 13,000 copies had sold. The 1928 date on our title page was used for both the fifth and sixth printings; the seventh printing would not come out until 1932 (n.b., this information from Grissom, see "Citation" below).

___DESCRIPTION: Black cloth binding over boards, gold paper labels mounted on the front and spine with letters and ruled borders in black, top edge of text block appears to have originally been stained red (now faded), fore-edge uncut, endpapers which match the dust jacket design, title page with silhouetted bull in black circle; binding twelvemo size (7 5/8" by 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-xii], [1]-232. The dust jacket is unclipped and shows the original $2.00 price, jacket design "D" (per Grissom) which was first used on a 1927 printing.

___CONDITION: Volume better than very good, the binding clean, the gold paper labels clean and without rubbing, straight corners just beginning to rub, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; very light wear to the front joint, light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine, offsetting to the endpapers, the front endpaper with a few miniscule specks. The unclipped dust jacket is good only; while complete, there is overall edgewear including small loss at both the head and tail and small chips where the flaps meet the panels, the spine is sunned, and while the panels, flaps and spine are all still attached the brittle paper has caused creasing where each piece meets the other.

___CITATION: Grissom, no. A.7.1.e [or f] (published 2011), which replaces much of the scholarship in Hanneman (published 1967).

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