1933 1ed Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing Classic American Short Stories

1933 1^ed Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing Classic American Short Stories

 

‘Winner Take Nothing’ was Ernest Hemingway’s first new book of fiction following the publication of “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929 – a book which contains fourteen stories. Some of them have appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been published before.

 

This work follows the stories of a variety of strange characters – “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” is about an old Spanish Beggar. “Homage to Switzerland” concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States, and so on.

 

This first edition “Winner Take Nothing” features the original publisher’s cloth hardcover binding. Contents include:

• After the storm
• Clean, well-lighted place
• The light of the world
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• The sea change
• A way you’ll never be
• The mother of a queen
• One reader writes
• Homage to Switzerland
• A day’s wait
• A natural history of the dead
• Wine of Wyoming
• The gambler, the nun, and the radio

 

Item number: #30239

Price: $550

 

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

 

Winner take nothing

 

New York; London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 244
• Edition points:
  • Scribner’s “A” on copyright page with seal
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Black cloth
  • Facsimile dust jacket
• Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)

 

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