HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Islands in the Stream

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Item #06513

“The Last Sea - Hemingway’s Posthumous Epic of Exile and Endurance”
A Bright First Edition in Jacket

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Islands in the Stream. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970].

First edition, first printing. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 225 x 155 mm.). [x], [1–2], 3–466, [4, blank] pp.

Publisher’s light green cloth over boards, front cover stamped with Hemingway’s facsimile signature in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, yellow map endpapers. A fine copy, the cloth fresh and unfaded; in the original dust jacket, near fine, with the spine slightly faded. A notably well-preserved example.

Published nearly a decade after Hemingway’s death, Islands in the Stream represents one of his most substantial posthumous works, edited by his widow, Mary Hemingway. The novel draws on material developed over many years and reflects deeply autobiographical themes.

Set largely in the Gulf Stream and the Caribbean, the narrative follows the painter Thomas Hudson through three interrelated episodes - exploring artistic life, personal loss, and wartime pursuit. The work resonates strongly with Hemingway’s own experiences in Cuba and his wartime patrols against German submarines.

Now regarded as an important late addition to the Hemingway canon, the novel offers a fuller sense of his final creative direction and thematic concerns.

Hanneman A17A.

Price: $250.00