Description
The first edition, first printing of Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway, in the publisher’s first state dust jacket.
Octavo, [10], 3-466pp, [4]. Publisher’s light green cloth, facsimile signature in gilt on the front board, title in gilt on the spine. The first printing, with “A-9.70(V)” on the copyright page. Yellow cartographic endpapers by Samuel H. Bryant. Dust remnant along top edge of text block, small spot along foredge. Internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $10.00 on the front flap, “1-4063” code on the spine, light wear to covers, short closed tear at head of the spine. Other titles by Hemingway on the verso of the jacket.
(Hanneman, A17a) (Grissom A.42.1.a.)
Published posthumously in October 1970, Islands in the Stream was adapted into the 1977 film starring George C. Scott.
