Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

8vo. Original brown cloth (original dust jacket in pieces and laid into rear). Provenance: Bennett Schneider Book Seller, Kansas City (ticket at rear); Ruth White Lowry (1884-1974), Hemingway's cousin and Kansas City native (recipient of Hemingway's inscription).

Later edition. INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS COUSIN, RUTH LOWRY: "Dear Ruth, this book is all about how unromantic travel is and look at how they have gotten it up. Well the author is dead anyway. Very good writing about country – he was always better in country than people. Ernest."

In his memoir, Hemingway reflects on the friends and acquaintances he made while living in Paris during the 1920s. He often visited Gertrude Stein, sometimes just to talk about books. At one point, he was reading D.H. Lawrence, whom Stein dismissed as boring, dead, and preposterous. She instead recommended he read the work of Marie Belloc Lowndes.

Hemingway was known to have frequented Bennett Schneider's bookshop in Kansas City, where he likely acquired this book for his cousin, with whom he was staying at the time.