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Lot 36
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$4,480
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Lot Description
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
8vo. Original green cloth gilt; dust jacket (sunning to spine, creases and chipping along upper extremities with two 1" vertical tears). Provenance: Ruth White Lowry (1884-1974), Hemingway's cousin and Kansas City native (recipient of Hemingway's inscription).
Early printing (lacking "A" on copyright). INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS COUSIN, RUTH LOWRY: "For Ruth, with much affection, Ernest Hemingway, Key West 1935."
[With:] part of the original envelope that contained the book, Hemingway's Key West address in an unknown hand.
Property from a Private St. Louis Collection