Description
First edition, first printing of To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, in a first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [viii], 262pp. Black cloth, author’s signature stamped in gold on front cover, title stamped in gilt over green on spine. A first printing, with Scribner’s A and publisher’s devise on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, portrait of Hemingway on back panel, faint shelf wear to covers, scuff mark along spine, a very good example. (Hanneman 14a)