Sale 2683 - Lot 230

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
in our time, Limited First Edition; One of 170 Copies Printed.

Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924.

First edition of Hemingway's first published collection of short stories; tall octavo; copy number 105 of 170 printed on Rives handmade paper; illustrated with woodcut frontispiece after Henry Strater; bound in original distinctive paper boards printed in red and black (minor stains; rebacked, top board with repaired crack, slight discoloration to endpapers); housed in a custom clamshell box with morocco spine; 10 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.

in our time, Hemingway's first collection of short stories, was published in Paris after he and his new wife Hadley moved to France in 1921. The young writer had planned to continue his career in journalism, but instead, Hemingway moved in circles with other post-war artists and thinkers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Hemingway, encouraged by Pound, began writing and publishing short fiction. Bill Bird, at Three Mountains Press, printed the present volume on a hand press with handmade paper. "I'm going to pull something really fancy with your book." Bird wrote to Hemingway at the time. The print run was limited to 170 (aspirationally planned at the outset to reach 300 copies) because printing issues resulted in the loss of nearly half of the paper purchased. The meager number of successfully printed copies were sent mostly to reviewers and friends of the project. Boni & Liverwright produced their edition the following year with an initial print run of 1,335 copies, and then reprinted the text four more times.

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