Books and Manuscripts

From the Library of Ernest Hemingway, Gifted to His Friend and Collaborator in Cuba

Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1934). First American edition. 8vo. (viii), 308 pp. From the library of Ernest Hemingway, with his inscription on front free endpaper, “Ernest Hemingway his book now Dick Armstrongs' ” Publisher's orange cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; top edge stained green, other edges trimmed; scattered light foxing to text; in original illustrated dust-jacket, loss at top and bottom of spine, other scattered small chips at folds; panels darkened with scattered soiling; in full brown morocco solander box. 

Rare book from the library of Ernest Hemingway, with his inscription, “Ernest Hemingway his book now Dick Armstrongs' ” Richard Armstrong was a reporter and head of the International News Service bureau based in Havana. He first met Hemingway in the summer of 1934 when he photographed Hemingway marlin fishing on the Pilar, where he documented the crew--which included two scientists researching the fish--the boat, and their catch. The two became friends and correspondents, and the following year, in 1935, Armstrong and his wife, Jane, a State Department employee, typed the manuscript of Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa. During this time, Dick corresponded with Hemingway and provided him with information regarding Cuban politics, which Hemingway would include in his To Have and Have Not. The couple's daughter, Phyllis Gardner, later typed the manuscript of For Whom the Bell Tolls.