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To Have and Have Not |
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"There are scenes that are superb technical achievements and other scenes that carry him into new registers of emotion... The literary hyenas have been saying that Hemingway was done for, but their noses have betrayed them into finding the scent of decay where none existed. From the evidence of this book, I should say that he is just beginning a new career." -Malcolm Cowley, 1937 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $3600. First edition of Hemingway's first novel since A Farewell To Arms. Set in Key West and containing plenty of fishing, adventure, and left-wing politics, To Have and Have Not effectively evokes life in the 1930's Florida Keys. Basis for the 1944 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. An outstanding copy with only the slightest wear to extremely bright dust jacket. Rare in this condition. |
