8vo. Original black cloth stamped and lettered in red, top edge stained black (very light sunning to spine). 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).

Third printing. INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS COUSIN, RUTH LOWRY: "Dear Ruth, This is the only citizen in a long time who deserved a Nobel prize and got one – No, Yates did too – if I were giving it I'd give it to James Joyce, to Ezra Pound, again to this guy, then to George Moore if still alive for Ave, Atque, Vale then to Joyce again because he would have it all spent by then. Maybe by then somebody would deserve it. Ernest."

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.