SUMMARY: This offering is a Signed First Edition of Islands in the Stream. Price:$375.00

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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( 1899 — 1961). Hemmingway was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.

Book description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner"s Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1970 First Edition; First Printing Hard Cover A beautiful copy of this First Edition/First Printing copy (A-9.70[V]- see insert above) in Fine condition in its original green cloth, stamped in gilt and black in alike dust jacket .A most handsome collectible. A novel in three parts tracing the life of Thomas Hudson: "Bimini" is the story of a young Hudson entertaining his three sons at his island retreat -- and his loneliness when they leave. "Cuba" is Hudson"s clandestine war efforts, the death of his son as a pilot and his chance encounter with his first wife, the love of his life. "At Sea" is an older Hudson commanding a pursuit of German U-boat survivors, the survivors die and Hudson is wounded. Hemingway"s last novel, posthumously published by Mary Hemingway. In the dedication, she states that "the book is all Ernest"s. We have added nothing to it. " Charles Scribner"s Sons US

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Price:$375.00