Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional First hardcover Edition, First Printing of To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway with no dust jacket. First Edition unstated, 1937 Scribner. First Printing with all the points: 1937 on both title and copyright pages, the publisher’s seal on the copyright page.
The book is in Good condition with bright boards with some sheen and heavy wear. The boards are straight, but the edges and the top front corner are worn completely through. The title ink is faded with both the author and title legible. The bottom spine end is completely folded under, while the top is completely missing. There is a bookplate on the front paste down and the first free end paper has been removed. The rear end paper has two ink stamps. Both hinges are cracked with old glue stains. Inside the pages are evenly toned.
No dust jacket.
To Have and Have Not is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1937 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The book follows Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida. To Have and Have Not was Hemingway’s second novel set in the United States, after The Torrents of Spring.
Written sporadically between 1935 and 1937, and revised as he traveled back and forth from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, the novel portrays Key West and Cuba in the 1930s, and provides a social commentary on that time and place. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers described the novel as heavily influenced by the Marxist ideology Hemingway was exposed to by his support of the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War while he was writing it.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
