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Sell or Auction Your Ernest Hemingway Sun Also Rises 1926 1st Edition w Dust Jacket for up to Over $75,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions

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Sell Your Ernest Hemingway Sun Also Rises 1926 1st Edition w Dust Jacket

The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. However, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now “recognized as Hemingway’s greatest work”,  and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner’s. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.

Below is a recent realized price for an Ernest Hemingway Sun Also Rises 1926 1st edition w dust jacket. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Ernest Hemingway Sun Also Rises 1926 1st Edition w Dust Jacket. Sold for Over $75,000.

The first edition of The Sun Also Rises published in 1926 by Scribner’s, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleonike Damianakes. The Hellenistic jacket design “breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece”. click to enlarge

Nate D. Sanders Auctions has sold the following signed Ernest Hemingway items:

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter & Signed Envelope, Documenting the Legendary Marlin That Inspired ”The Old Man and the Sea” — ”…landed Blue Marlin which weighed 500 lbs…sharks hit him…”

Exceptional Ernest Hemingway autograph letter and signed envelope, one day after catching the 500 lb. marlin in Bimini that inspired ”The Old Man and the Sea”, apocryphal until this letter which documents for the first time in Hemingway’s own words not only the size of the marlin, but also its attack by sharks, similar to the plot of Hemingway’s novel. Letter is accompanied by a photo of Hemingway and his friend, Henry Strater, with the half-eaten marlin. Dated 8 May (identified as 1935 by the “Hemingway Letters Project”), Hemingway writes to Erl Roman, the fishing editor of the ”Miami Herald”, describing the catch in detail, the attack by the sharks, and also mentioning that he is sending some photos to Roman. Letter in pencil reads in part,

”Will make this very short on acct. Bill Fagen leaving May 8 / Dear Erl: Yesterday May 7 Henry H. STRATER, widely known painter of OGUNQUIT Maine, Pres. Maine Tuna Club, fishing with me on Pilar landed Blue Marlin which weighed 500 lbs on tested scales after all of meat below anal fin had been torn away by sharks when fish was brought to gaff– Had him ready to take in when sharks hit him– Fish 12 feet 8 1/2 inches– Tail 48 inch spread–girth 62 in. (will send all other exact measurements when have chance to use Steel tape on him). Fish hooked off Bimini, hooked in corner of mouth, never layted, jumped 18 times clear, brought to boat in an hour such a heavy fish jumped hell out of himself. We worked him fast our system. Had him at boat when shark hit him. Strater has football knee, went out of joint, had hell with it, we wouldnt handline fish, he got him up himself, in one hour 40 minutes, we got him over the roller after Some lifting boy, all blood drained, meat gone below anal fin to tail, but fish completely intact, Fred Parke is mounting it–“

Two page autograph letter is accompanied by an envelope signed in pencil, addressed in Hemingway’s hand to ”Erl Roman Esq. / Miami Herald / Miami / Fla.” and signed by Hemingway on the verso, ”E. Hemingway / Yacht Pilar / Bimini / B.W.I.”

Importantly, Hemingway’s account of the marlin catch differs from other anecdotal stories of it, one of which describes Hemingway using a ”machine gun” on the shark, which purportedly attracted more sharks to the feeding frenzy. It’s likely Hemingway left out this detail, as Strater would blame its use on attracting more sharks to the marlin, depriving Strater of a world record marlin catch. “Old Man and the Sea” has been noted by Hemingway scholars as most likely inspired by this particular 7 May 1935 trip, including Michael Culver in his biography “Sparring in the Dark: Hemingway, Strater and The Old Man and the Sea”.

Letter measures 8.5” x 11”, envelope measures approximately 6.25” x 3.625” and photo, which is a modern reproduction, measures 7.75” x 9.75”. Letter is uniformly toned with some chipping along edges, and small piece of tape at very top. Envelope has some foxing and torn edge from opening. Both items are in very good condition. A remarkable letter in Hemingway’s own words of a legendary fishing adventure that inspired one of his most popular, Pulitzer-Prize winning novels. Sold for $28,000.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ”A Farewell to Arms” — Scarce in Original Slipcase

Ernest Hemingway signed limited first edition of his post-WWI classic, ”A Farewell to Arms”, housed in its original limited edition slipcase, with numbers matching. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Published on 27 September 1929 in a limited edition of 510 numbered copies, this being #214, signed boldly ”Ernest Hemingway” in black fountain pen. In matching slipcase with Charles Scribner’s Sons plate, again listing the limited edition as #214. Measures 6.5” x 9.5”. Some chipping to seams of slipcase, overall in very good condition. Chipping to spine label, otherwise book is near fine. Sold for $10,313.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ”A Farewell to Arms”. Click to enlarge.

Ernest Hemingway Signed “Men Without Women” — Dedicated in His Hand to the Son of Renowned Actress Helen Hayes

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Ernest Hemingway signed “Men Without Women”, Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1955. Hemingway’s autograph dedication to the front free endpaper is to the son of actress Helen Hayes and reads in full: “To Jim MacArthur / With best wishes from his friend / Ernest Hemingway / Finca Vigia / San Francisco de Paula / Cuba”. Hemingway’s short story collection is bound in oatmeal cloth boards with gilt lettering and black print to spine. Measures 5.25″ x 7.5″. Cocking to spine, mild sunning to backstrip and wear to spine ends, else near fine. From the estate of Helen Hayes. Sold for $8,160.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed Presentation Copy of ”Old Man and the Sea” — Signed in 1954, the Year He Won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Ernest Hemingway signed presentation copy of ”The Old Man and the Sea”, the novel perhaps most responsible for Hemingway’s Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1954, the same year he signed this copy. Hemingway writes in bold blue ink, ”For Ian / with much affection / Ernest Hemingway. / Laitokotok 1954”. The recipient is Ian Richard Whichello, a policeman in Kenya at the time of the inscription, and the place, Laitokotok, is a town in Kenya near Amboselli National Park – the site of Mount Kilimanjaro, which Hemingway and his wife visited in January 1954. Shortly after this visit the Hemingways would survive two well-known plane crashes, after which Whichello might have attended to them, given the personal nature of the inscription here. Copy published in London by the Reprint Society, 1953, with decorative illustrations throughout including the large marlin on the endpapers. Bound in teal cloth boards with silver lettering and embellishments to boards. Measures 6.25” x 8.75”. Whichello’s name on front free endpaper, a bit of foxing to endpapers and minimal expert restoration to spine. A stunning copy in very good plus condition with a bold and interesting inscription by Hemingway. Sold for $7,500.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed Presentation Copy of ”Old Man and the Sea”. Click to enlarge.

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Three Times, Including as ”Hemingstein”, Announcing the Birth of His Son — ”…This makes three boys – a matador – a banderellero and a sword handler…”

Ernest Hemingway autograph letter signed, announcing the birth of his son, Gregory Hemingway, to his friend Charles MacGregor. MacGregor was a founding member of the literary group Algonquin Round Table (or ”The Vicious Circle” as they called themselves), to which Hemingway belonged, along with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart, all of whom Hemingway mentions here. Written from Kansas City, Missouri, letter is undated, but includes the original envelope postmarked 16 November 1931, four days after Gregory was born. Two page letter on single sheet measures 8.5” x 11”. Folds and very small tears at a few folds. Overall in very good condition. Accompanied by envelope handwritten by Hemingway, measuring 6.25” x 4”. Sold for $7,500.

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Amazing Ernest Hemingway Signed Photograph of a Lion and Its Hunt While on Safari — Large Photograph Measures 11” x 9”

Spectacular image of a male lion, in profile, with one paw placed upon a zebra it has just killed. Vintage photograph is made all the more spectacular as signed by Ernest Hemingway, famously known for his African safaris. Sepia matte-finish photo measures 11” x 9”, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, ”To Lynn Bogue Hunt from his friend / Ernest Hemingway.” Taken while on safari in Tanganyika, Hemingway here inscribes the awe-inspiring photograph to Hunt, one of the most famous sporting artists of the 20th century. Matted and framed to an overall size of 17.5” x 15.5”. Scattered light creasing, light rippling to top edge, and mild silvering to darker areas of image, otherwise fine condition. A fantastic, one-of-a-kind piece. Sold for $6,544.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition, First Printing of “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories” — A Very Uncommon Title Signed by Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway signed first edition, first printing of his anthology work, “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories”, an uncommon title signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, which includes Hemingway’s only full-length play “The Fifth Column” along with several stories set during the Spanish Civil War, and his first writing “Up in Michigan”. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938 with Scribner seal on copyright page and “A”, as required. Hemingway signs the front free endpaper in fountain pen, “To Jean & Harrison / best wishes always / Ernest Hemingway”. Bound in red-orange boards, book measures 6″ x 8.5″. Sunning to backstrip and light soiling to boards. Some toning and mild discoloration to interior, and front joint faintly starting. Overall in very good condition, housed in facsimile dust jacket. Sold for $5,250.

Ernest Hemingway mint Farewell to Arms 1st state dust jacket
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Ernest Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees” Signed and Inscribed — Hemingway’s Last Novel, Rarely Found Signed

First edition, first printing of “Across the River and Into the Trees” signed and inscribed by its author Ernest Hemingway. Charles Scribners and Sons: New York: 1950. Hemingway’s last full-length novel to be published in his lifetime. All first edition points present, including Scribners seal and letter “A” printed on the copyright page. Inscribed by Hemingway on front free endpaper: “To Paula and Olivia / With good wishes / Ernest Hemingway”. First edition dustjacket has original $3.00 unclipped price intact, with minor chips and tears to edges, else very good. Hardcover book, measuring 5.75″ x 8.5″ in original black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, has minor toning to pages, else near fine condition overall. Sold for $4,037.

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Ernest Hemingway’s “Across the River and Into the Trees” Signed and Inscribed. Click to enlarge.

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Ernest Hemingway autograph letter signed, composed on Hotel Statler St. Louis stationery, undated but circa October 1931 when Hemingway was writing “Death in the Afternoon”. Hemingway writes Charles MacGregor, secretary to Robert Benchley and founding member of the literary group Algonquin Round Table (or “The Vicious Circle” as they called themselves), to which Hemingway and Benchley belonged. Sold for $3,825.

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Exceedingly Rare First Printing Dusjacket of ”The Great Gatsby” — Much More Rare Than the Legendary Novel It Houses

Rare first edition, first printing of one of the most desired books in the history of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1925, with the nearly impossible to find first printing dustjacket. Every point is present: 1925 is printed on title page; Charles Scribner’s Sons logo appears on the copyright page with no subsequent printing statements; ”chatter” appears on page 60; ”northern” appears on page 119; ”it’s” is printed on line 16 of page 165; ”sick in tired” is found on page 205; ”Union Street station” is mistyped on line 7-8 of page 211. Bound in dark green cloth boards with title and author’s name blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Francis Cugat’s scarce original unrestored first printing dustjacket has the lowercase ”j” in ”jay Gatsby” on the back panel hand-corrected in ink.  Sold for $50,000.

George Eliot Middlemarch 1871 1872 1st edition first issue in cloth
Great Gatsby First Edition with Great Gatsby First Edition Dustjacket
Virginia Woolf Night and Day London 1919 1st edition dust jacket
Great Gatsby First Edition with Great Gatsby First Edition Dustjacket

”Gone With the Wind” Cast Signed Novel — Signed by 12, Including Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard & Hattie McDaniel — With PSA/DNA COA

Very rare ”Gone With the Wind” novel signed by the cast. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1938, later edition. Novel is signed on the front endpapers by the leading cast members: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Ona Munson, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Thomas Mitchell, Carroll Nye, Oscar Polk, and unit manager William J. Scully. Underneath their signatures are the names of their ”Gone With the Wind” characters, written in another hand. Housed in a custom leather clamshell box with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, ”Gone With the Wind / Autographed by Twelve Members of Cast”. Book measures 6” x 9”. Toning to signature page, otherwise very good. With PSA/DNA for all actor’s signatures. Sold for $15,000.

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”Gone With the Wind” Cast Signed Novel, Including Hattie McDaniel autograph. Click to enlarge.
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”Gone With the Wind” Cast Signed Novel, Including Hattie McDaniel autograph. Click to enlarge.
PSA/DNA for ”Gone With the Wind” Cast Signed Novel. Click to enlarge.

First Edition Set of Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” — “Fellowship of the Ring” & “Return of the King” Are First Printings; “Two Towers” Is Second Printing — All Three Are Near Fine

Very rare first edition, early printing set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954 & 1955. All three are in extraordinarily near fine condition for both the books and their original dust jackets. “The Fellowship of the Ring” is a first edition, first printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. With signature mark “4” at the bottom of page 49. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. “The Two Towers” is a first edition, second printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. “The Return of the King” is a first edition, first printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Signature mark “4” present on page 49, and all lines of type sag in the middle. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. All measure 5.75″ x 9″ with top edges red. A beautiful set with only minor edge wear, toning to endpapers and very light wear to jackets. One of the nicest “Lord of the Rings” sets available. Sold for $14,588.

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