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Lot 112

HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899?1961). The Sun Also Rises. New York...

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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899?1961). The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1926. 8vo. Modern harmattan goatskin with inlays and overlays of brown, red and white goatskin and deerskin in the design of a bull on both covers, raised bands, gilt?lettering in 2 compartments, marbled endpapers, bound by Carolyn Sunjeda. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with ?stoppped? for ?stopped? on p. 181, line 26. In an attractive designer binding depicting an image of a bull which was an ongoing metaphor that Hemingway used throughout the book to represent the ideals of war and the nature of masculinity. Connolly, The Modern Movement 50; Hanneman A6.A.