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Winner Take Nothing
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. Item #06441
First Edition of Hemingway’s Third Collection of Stories
A Near Fine Copy in a Near Fine Dust Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933.
First edition, first printing, with the Scribner’s “A” and the Scribner’s Seal on the copyright page (first print run of 20,300 copies).
Octavo (7 5/16 x 5 1/16 inches; 187 x 130 mm.). [2, blank], [8], 244, [2, blank] pp.
Original black cloth, front cover and spine with gold paper labels printed in black. Top edge stained red. An exceptionally well-preserved copy, the labels entirely intact and unworn. In the original color pictorial dust jacket, printed in black, white, and red, with the price $2.00 on the front flap. Jacket with only the barest trace of rubbing at extremities (confined to approximately 1/16 inch at the foot of the spine), and notably entirely unfaded on the spine, a condition point of particular importance for this title. Altogether, a near fine copy in a near fine jacket - rarely encountered in such fresh and unrestored state.
A significant early collection, comprising fourteen short stories written during one of the most introspective and experimental periods of Hemingway’s career. Several of the pieces rank among his most powerful shorter works, including “A Natural History of the Dead,” a stark meditation on the realities of war; “Fathers and Sons,” which revisits themes of memory and inheritance central to the Nick Adams cycle; and “A Day’s Wait,” one of his most anthologized stories.
Published between Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Green Hills of Africa (1935), Winner Take Nothing reflects a darker, more reflective phase in Hemingway’s writing, marked by psychological depth and a departure from the more overtly heroic tone of his earlier work. Though initially less celebrated than some of his major novels, the collection has since come to be regarded as one of his most subtle and revealing books.
Hanneman A12a.
Price: $3,250.00