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Lot 48
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,520
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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961)]. RICHARDSON, Ethel Florence Lindesay ("Henry Handel Richardson") (1870-1946). The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1931.
8vo. Original black cloth gilt (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).
First collected American edition. INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY TO HIS COUSIN, RUTH LOWRY: "Dear Ruth: This one, or three really since it is three novels – is or are pretty very good. The same woman wrote Maurice Guest – very good about musicians – EH."
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.
Property from a Private St. Louis Collection