Hemingway, Ernest | "A handbook for conduct for the new generation..."

Hemingway, Ernest

The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926

8vo. Half-title. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt labels; head and foot lightly bumped. Dust jacket; restoration, primarily at the spine panel ends, folds, and lower portion of the front panel, facsimile portions of the title, publisher's imprint, and a few words on the bottom of the front panel, verso of spine reinforced.

First edition, first issue, the Goldstone copy, with “stoppped” on p. 181 and the front panel of the jacket citing "In Our Times" instead of "In Our Time."

Hemingway's first major novel, the bulk of it written in six weeks, published in October 1926 in an initial edition of 5,090 copies. This fraught work roman à clef examines the "lost generation" as they gather in across Paris and Spain to search for meaning in the harsh post-war world. Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway's biographer, states that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work."

"The Sun Also Rises... soon became a handbook of conduct for the new generation... It is all carved in stone, bigger and truer than life; and it is the work of a man who, having ended his busy term of apprenticeship, was already a master at twenty-six..." (Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering).

Adrian Homer Goldstone’s collection was exemplified by fine copies of American literature by Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.

A well-provenanced example with the scarce jacket.

REFERENCES:

Connolly 50; Hanneman A6a

PROVENANCE:

Adrian Homer Goldstone (bookplate)