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Across the River and Into the Trees
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Item #06512
“Venice, Memory, and Mortality - Hemingway’s Late Masterwork”
In a Bright First Issue Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
First American edition, in first issue dust jacket.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 210 x 143 mm.). [xii], 308 pp.
Publisher’s black cloth, front cover stamped with Hemingway’s facsimile signature in gilt, spine lettered in gilt.
A near fine copy, the cloth fresh and bright; in the original, unfaded first issue dust jacket (with yellow lettering on the backstrip), with only light wear at the top extremities. With a 7 x 5 inch Photograph of Hemingway on front paste-down. An excellent copy in the rare first issue dust jacket.
Hemingway’s first major novel in a decade following For Whom the Bell Tolls, and one of his most introspective works.
Set in postwar Venice, the novel follows Colonel Richard Cantwell - an aging American officer confronting memory, loss, and mortality in the aftermath of war.
Though initially received with mixed critical response, Across the River and Into the Trees has since been reassessed as a deeply personal and transitional work, bridging Hemingway’s earlier wartime fiction and the later achievement of The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
The fragile dust jacket is notoriously prone to wear and fading; copies of the first issue retaining a bright, unfaded jacket are increasingly scarce and highly desirable.
Hanneman A23A.
Price: $1,250.00