Winner Take Nothing (1933) Ernest Hemingway, Signed, 1st Edition In Original Dj

WINNER TAKE NOTHING ERNEST HEMINGWAY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK - LONDON 1933. Beautifully signed by Ernest Hemingway on signature cut lightly adhered at title page. Stylish early fountain pen signature contemporaneous with release of this title. Black, coated cloth boards w/crisp gold labels at cover and spine, light shelf wear. Deckled pages fine; no writing. Original first edition dust jacket, moderate edge wear, some rub, discoloration, adhesive ; clipped, protected in clear sleeve. Dj Striking jacket design in black, red and white with Laurence Stallings review at back. Sharp near fine first edition in good wrapper.

Ernest Hemingway's final collection of short stories and first new book of fiction since the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been previously published. Characters and backgrounds are widely varied.

"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 USA. Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer and excelled in this medium with this selection revealing some of his best.

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• Topic: Twentieth-Century Fiction
• Binding: Fine Binding
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Place of Publication: United States of America
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition