Ernest HEMINGWAY

(HEMINGWAY) BLANCHOT Maurice. Autograph manuscript on Hemingway
1946, 16 pages 1/2 in-8 (13,5 x 21 cm), loose leaves
Author's autograph manuscript, 16 and a half 8vo pages, published in number 17 of L'Arche (July 1946) and reprinted, with slight modifications, in La Part du Feu (1949).
Complete manuscript, written recto-verso, very densely spaced, with numerous deletions, corrections, and additions.
In order to examine the problems related to the translation of a literary text into another language, Maurice Blanchot looks at the contemporary American novel and its perception in Europe.
“Many good...

First edition of the French translation by Jean Dutourd, one of 86 numbered copies on pur fil, only grand papier (deluxe) copies. 

Anthracite morocco binding, gilt title lengthwise, date at the foot, black stingray boards framed in morocco, gilt decorative paper endleaves, original wrappers preserved, gilt edges, an elegant binding signed Boichot. Like most copies, two sunned spots to head and foot of spine, title-page and half-title slightly shaded due to the paper’s acidity.

Rare deluxe-paper copy of one of the most influential...

English reprint of 1955 — the first American edition was published in 1927 and the first English edition in 1928 — on ordinary paper, complete with its original illustrated unclipped dust jacket.

Publisher's binding in light blue cloth, title, author's name and publisher's device stamped in dark blue to spine, title repeated, also in dark blue, to head of upper board.

Spine ends and edges slightly sunned as is often the case, a...

Illustrated edition with 12 original color lithographs by Antonio Totero, one of 50 numbered copies on grand vélin d'Arches, the only deluxe copies after 2 satin de Lyon and 20 japon diversely enriched.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification page, is complete with its portfolio containing a suite of the 12 signed lithographs on japon.
At the end of the work, autograph signatures of Antonio Totero and the publisher.
Handsome copy complete with its full green cloth slipcase and its suite on japon.

Le vieil Homme et la Mer [The Old Man and the Sea], Gallimard, Paris 1952, 12x19cm, original wrappers.

First edition of the French translation by Jean Dutourd, one of 86 numbered copies on pur fil, only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Nice copy.
A rare deluxe copy of one of the most influential texts in 20th-century literature.

First illustrated edition with color lithographs by André Masson, Fonatanarosa, Carzou, Commère, Luc Simon, Pelayo, Guiramand and Garbell. Each work, which generally occupies one volume, is illustrated by a painter. Imprimerie nationale, in Romain du roi 14-point. One of 4500 on watermarked Arches vellum, numbered 759.
Deluxe publisher's binding in full havana shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a pattern of H's. Author's signature on upper cover. Slipcase edged in havana shagreen. One edge of volume 3 slipcase split for 8cm, otherwise superb copy in near-mint condition, perfectly fresh.

Second edition of this special issue devoted to American writers and poets.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, E.E. Cummings, Erskine Caldwell, André Gide, Julien Green...

Later edition, no deluxe issue printed.

Rare presentation copy dated 1953 and signed by Ernest Hemingway at the Ritz to Madame Robert Faroux: "For madame Robert Faroux with sincere good wishes. Ernest Hemingway. Ritz 1953."

First UK edition of Hemingway's masterpiece, in its unclipped original dust jacket (printed price: 18s. net). The first US edition preceded this publication by only a few weeks.

Publisher’s full brown cloth, dust jacket with inevitable and minute corner tears; neat repairs to the verso of the dust jacket at head and tail of spine. Ownership inscription on title page.

 

A rare copy of Hemingway's famous autobiographical account of his early years in Paris between 1921 and 1926, published posthumously nearly forty years after the events described. 

To our knowledge unpublished autograph letter signed by Ernest Hemingway to Roberto Herrera Sotolongo, 2 pages in blue ink on both sides of a sheet, and envelope postmarked September 19, 1953 with his autograph return address ("E. Hemingway...") on the back.

The letter begins in Spanish and continues in English, before ending with a few Spanish words signed "Mister Papa".

A magnificent letter from Hemingway to his Cuban friend and secretary, recounting his 1953 safari in Kenya. Hemingway reveals the true outcome of the hunt for the black-maned lion, a central theme of his posthumous novel True at first light (1999)...

New French edition, one of 1040 numbered copies on alfa navarre.
Slightly sunned spine, otherwise a fine copy.
Publisher's binding after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
 

First English edition of 1950 (the first edition, published the same year, is American) on ordinary paper, complete with its original illustrated unclipped dust jacket with gondola motif.

Publisher's binding in turquoise green cloth, to spine, a mock title label on red ground with palladium lettering and publisher's device also in palladium to foot, red central medallion to upper board echoing the gondola of the dust jacket, bottom edge untrimmed.

Original photograph, vintage print , representing Ernest Hemingway surrounded by a crew of seven men hoisting an imposing marlin they have just caught.
Precious autograph written from Peru and dated May 1956 signed Ernest Hemingway Adolphe Lévèque (1902-1975), bartender leader of the liner Ile-de-France : "Everyone works. Ernest Hemingway. Peru May 1956 » .
This fishing scene offered to a modest bartender synthesizes, in its apparent simplicity, all the passions and the spirit of the most famous American writer of his time.
The photograph was taken during the shooting of the adaptation of Old Man and the Sea . Hemingway was...

Original photograph, inscribed from Ernest Hemingway to Adolphe Lévêque
Original photograph, contemporary print, depicting Ernest Hemingway holding an imposing marlin that he had caught.

A handsome autograph inscription from Peru May 1956 by Ernest Hemingway to Adolphe Lévêque (1902-1975), head bartender on the liner Île-de-France: “à mon vieux et cher ami Adolphe Lévèque” “To my dear old friend Adolphe Lévèque.”

This fishing scene, sent to a humble bartender epitomizes, with its apparent simplicity, Hemingway's – the most celebrated American writer of his time – passions and...

First edition of the French translation un des 205 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A nice copy.

First edition of the French translation, false mention of fourth edition.
Binding in the bradel half morocco green spring, preserved covers, gilded head, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Signed autograph of Ernest Hemingway to Paul Pinay.

First edition of the French translation of the current paper, false entry of the eleventh edition.
Binding to bradel open cardboard way vellum, smooth spine, guards and contreplats green paper covers and spine preserved, gilded head, contemporary binding.
Very rare autograph dedication signed and dated by the author Jacqueline and Francis Sommer: "... this imperfect book, written in youth and Acknowledged on 01/07/57 from Ernest Hemingway Their friend Paris from 1924 to 1957..."
François Sommer was an industrialist and a French resistance, he was also a great hunter very invested in hunting legislation. It certainly met Hemingway on safari in Africa in the...