Description
The signed first edition of Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker.
Octavo, xvi, 697pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. First printing, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $10.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear.
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, from “The First Edition Circle” at Kroch’s & Brentano’s of Chicago, with bookmark and associated paperwork.
Baker’s full-length biography of Ernest Hemingway was written with access to Hemingway’s papers, and testimony from family, friends, publishers, and literary associates.
The work remains one of the principal early biographies of Hemingway.
