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Lot 254

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Bullfighting, Sport & Industry. Sacramento, CA: Meeker Publications, Inc., 1999.

Estimate: $3,000 - $6,000
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$1,500

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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Bullfighting, Sport & Industry. With a Foreword and Illustrations by Barnaby Conrad. Sacramento, CA: Meeker Publications, Inc., 1999. 8vo. Spaces for illustrations are in the text, but the illustrations aren't present. 49 pp. Publisher's black cloth backstrip over printed yellow wrappers. Fine. 

Condition

"ADVANCE UNCORRECTED READER'S PROOF FROM MEEKER PUBLICATIONS, INC.", ONE OF ONLY 4 COPIES PRINTED. THIS COPY IS UNIQUE, AS THE HALF-TITLE IS SIGNED BY NUMEROUS AUTHORS AND TWO MEMBERS OF HEMINGWAY'S FAMILY FOR THE PUBLISHER, INCLUDING: Derek Walcott, Nadine Gordimer, Annie Proulx, Peter Matthiessen, Olive Reynolds, A. E. Hotchner, Chinua Achebe, Terry Tempest Williams, Kenzaburo Oe, Patrice Hemingway, Jack Hemingway, and 3 others. Meeker Publications published a trade edition of this title in 1999 - this article orignally appeared in Fortune Magazine in 1930. 

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