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To Have and Have Not -
Ernest Hemingway
1937 - Jonathan Cape, London - First English Edition
Hemingway’s novel about Key West and Cuba. His fourth novel and first to be published after A Farewell to Arms eight years earlier.
The basis for the classic Howard Hawks' 1944 film, scripted by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in her debut.
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1937 - Jonathan Cape, London - First English Edition
Hemingway’s novel about Key West and Cuba. His fourth novel and first to be published after A Farewell to Arms eight years earlier.The basis for the classic Howard Hawks' 1944 film, scripted by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in her debut.
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A Moveable Feast - Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties -
Ernest Hemingway
1964 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First American edition [A-3.64[H] on the copyright page. Price of $4.95 on jacket]
‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.’ – Hemingway to a friend, 1950.
A bright copy of Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomised.
Illustrated with eight black and white photographs.
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1964 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First American edition [A-3.64[H] on the copyright page. Price of $4.95 on jacket]
‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.’ – Hemingway to a friend, 1950.A bright copy of Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomised.
Illustrated with eight black and white photographs.
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Islands in the Stream -
Ernest Hemingway
1970 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition
The first of Hemingway’s fictional works to be published posthumously. Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II.
The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar.
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Price HK$ 1,200
1970 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition
The first of Hemingway’s fictional works to be published posthumously. Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II.The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar.
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Price HK$ 1,200