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Ernest Miller Hemingway

Male : Novelist. He divorced Martha Gellhorn to marry journalist Mary Welsh in 1944. Nobel prize 1954. Committed suicide
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1961 Age : 62
1923-1930
Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1923 PP, Contact Publ Co, Paris) - 300
In Our Time
(1924 Three Mountains Press, Shakespeare & Co, Paris) - Ltd Ed 170 numbered

USA FIRST EDITIONS
In Our Time
(1925 Boni & Liveright) (1930 Scribner 2nd Ed) - ss
Scribners from here on
The Torrents of Spring
(1926)
The Sun Also Rises
(1926)
Offered in 1999 for £13,635 !
[Filmed in 1957]
Today is Friday
(1926 The as Stable Publications, Englewood) - Ltd Ed 300
Men Without Women
(1927)
A Farewell to Arms
(1929) + Signed Ltd Ed of 510 copies, in a slipcase
[Filmed in 1932 & 1957]

1931-1940
Bastard Sheet Note for A Farewell to Arms
(1931 Louis Henry Cohn) - single sheet. Ltd Ed 93
Death in the Afternoon
(1932)
Winner Take Nothing
(1933)
The Green Hills of Africa
(1935)
Offered in 1999 for £365
To Have and Have Not
(1937)
[Filmed in 1945 & again in 1950 as "The Breaking Point"]
The Fifth Column and the First 49 stories
(1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1940)

1941-1960
(Ed) Men at War : The Best War Stories of All Times (1942 Crown, NY)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1942 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Lynd Ward
Across the River and Into the Trees
(1950)
The Old Man and the Sea
(1952) - PULITZER PRIZE
Offered in 2002 for £1665
[Filmed in 1958]
The Hemingway Reader
(1953)

1961 ONWARDS
The Collected Poems
(1960 SF) - pirated ed orig publ in Paris
A Moveable Feast
(1964)
By-Line
(1967)
Selected Letters 1917-1961
(1969) - edited by Carlos Baker
Islands in the Stream
(1970) - ed by Mary Hemingway
[Filmed in 1977]
The Nick Adams Stories
(1972)
A Divine Gesture
(1974 Aloe Editions, NY - 250)
Hokum : A Play in Three Acts
(1978 Sans Souci Press) - with Morris McNeil
Eighty-eight Poems
(1980 Harcourt Barce)
Selected Letters 1916-1961
(1981 Granada, US)
The Dangerous Summer
(1985)
The Garden of Eden
(1986)

UK FIRST EDITIONS
(All Cape unless stated)
1926-1940
In Our Time
(1926) - ss
Fiesta
(1927) - UK version of The Sun Also Rises
Men Without Women
(1927) - ss
Offered for £1275 in 1999
A Farewell to Arms
(1929)
Death in the Afternoon
(1932) (1966 Penguin)
The Torrents of Spring
(1933)
Winner Take Nothing
(1934) - ss
Green Hills of Africa
(1936)
To Have and Have Not
(1937)
The Spanish War
(1938 Fact Monograph No 16)
The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories
(1939)

1941-1970
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1941)
[Filmed in 1943]
The First Forty-Nine Stories
(1944)
The Essential Hemingway
(1947) - contains extracts from his works
Across the River and Into the Trees
(1950) - precedes US 1st
The Old Man and the Sea
(1952)
A Moveable Feast
(1964 18/-)
By-Line
(1968 Collins 45/-) - articles and despatches
Islands in the Stream
(1970 Collins 40/-)

After 1971
The Faithful Bull
(1980 Hamish Hamilton) - Michael Foreman
Selected Letters 1916-1961
(1981 Granada UK)
The Dangerous Summer
(1985 Hamish Hamilton £9.95)
On writing
(1985 Granada £7.95) - edited by Larry W Phillips
The Garden of Eden
(1987 HH)
True as First Light
(1999 Heinemann)

READING
Louis H Cohn : A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway
(1931 Random House)
Lillian Ross : Portrait of Hemingway
(1961 Simon & Schuster) (1962 Penguin 2/6)
Leicester Hemingway : My Brother, Ernest Hemingway
(1962 World)
A E Hotchner : Papa Hemingway
(1966)
A Hanneman : Ernest Hemingway - A Comprehensive Bibliography
(1967 Princeton UP)
(Ed) W White : Hemingway By-Line (1968 Collins)
Carlos Baker : Ernest Hemingway - A Life Story
(1969 Scribner) (1969 Collins 63/-)
Mary Welsh Hemingway : How it Was
(1976 Knopf) (1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £6.95)
Bernice Kert : The Hemingway Women
(1983 Norton, NY)
Jeffrey Meyers : Hemingway - A Biography
(1985 Harper) (1986 Macmillan £16.95)
Kenneth S Lynn : Hemingway
(1987 Simon & Schuster NY) (1987 S & S £16)
Denis Brian : The Faces of Hemingway - Intimate Portraits of Ernest Hemingway
(1988 Grafton £14.95)
Henry Serrano Villard & James Nagel : Hemingway in Love and War - The Lost Diary of
Agnes von Kurowsky
(1989 NE Univ Press, Boston)
(Ed) Scott Donaldson : The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway (1996 CUP £35 & £11.95)
David Sandison : Ernest Hemingway
(1998 Hamlyn £18.99)
A E Hotchner : Papa Hemingway
(1999 Scribners £8.99)
Michael Roberts : Hemingway - The Final Years
(1999 Norton £19.95)
Christopher Ondaatje : Hemingway in Africa - The Last Safari
(2003 Harper Collins £24.95)
(Graham Clarke & Henry Claridge : Ernest hemingway Critical Assessments
(2004 Helm £375) - 4 vols in slipcase

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