"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

See below our stock of Ernest Hemingway First Editions, fine bindings, and signed copies.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. [Modern Literature] First American Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 308. Recent black half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine, and black cloth over boards. With the original publisher's black cloth cover and spine bound in at rear..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 254; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with maroon label to spine lettered in silver, red illustration of a bow to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front flap. Contents clean, neat..... More
San Francisco, CA: [Pirate Edition], 1960. [Poetry] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, priced at 50c, and proudly emblazoned: 'originally published in Paris, pirated edition San Francisco, 1960'. Stapled twice. Light wear to covers, with some creasing to back cover and a little..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Modern litrature] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.350. Elegantly hand-bound in half burgundy morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides, twin navy labels. A fine copy. Ernest Hemingway's celebrated novel about a young lieutenant and an English nurse who fall in..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, earliest text. Crown octavo, pp.286. Elegantly hand-bound in full red morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contents mostly clean with a few minor spots/marks, vintage tape repairs to top corner of the first..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. [American Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.462 [2]. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others lightly trimmed. A crisp, clean copy, presented in an attractive..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. [Modern Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, with a complete number '3' to p.3. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 232 [8]. Recent full black morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the author's signature blocked in gilt to the to upper board, with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, priced at 18s. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket with bold 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. Proof copies feature the mis-print 'movable'..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with top edge tinted red, patterned grey endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall priced at 18s. Contents clean, top edge a little dusty/sunned, bright jacket with a tiny puncture to joint else fine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Memoir] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 92. Publisher's lime-green softcovers, typographic dust-jacket with 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. 125-128 chips to edges of paper where the pages have been snipped, toning to edges of textblock, light..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title panels, top edge tinted red, and the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Some overall toning, bookplate to pastedown, top edge a little sunned, jacket with some..... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 244; [2]. Recent black full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, gilt border to sides, author's signature blocked in gilt to front cover, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., fore-edge untrimmed. With the original black..... More
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1932. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [1] blank; 475; [1] blank. Publisher's orange paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, titles in red to spine and upper, top edge dark blue, grey endpapers. Some spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, textblock a little shaken..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A...... More