July 2016 Auction Ends Thursday, July 21st, 5pm Pacific

Lot #501:

Ernest Hemingway's Own Bullfighting Ticket From 18 August 1959 -- From the ''Plaza Toros'' in Bilbao, Spain -- Hemingway Wrote About the Bullfights of 1959 in His Final Book

Ernest Hemingway used bullfighting ticket from 18 August 1959. Hemingway wrote about his experiences at the bullfights in the summer of 1959 for a series of articles for Life magazine that would turn into Hemingway's final book ''The Dangerous Summer'', posthumously published in 1985. Ticket is part of a collection of items owned by Roberto Herrera Sotolongo, Hemingway's close friend and personal secretary when he lived in Havana, Cuba. Paper ticket lists the numbered section where Hemingway sat. Ticket measures approximately 5.5'' x 2.75''. Part of ticket cut off, presumably to gain entrance to event, and writing on verso. Very good condition.