Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, second printing hardcover copy of A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author’s Life in Paris in the Twenties by Ernest Hemingway in a price-cut dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1964 Scribner’s. Second Printing with B-3.64 (H) code on the copyright page.
The exterior of the book is in Very Good+ condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a puckered spine and on the front facsimile signature. Also, a few stains on the page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, heavy bottom edge wear, and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with the price cut from the front flap of the first state jacket. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap. A real beauty!