Ernest Hemingway – The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories – First Edition 1938
£750.00
A first edition, first printing published by Scribners in 1938. A very good book (one of 5350 printed) with one name and date to the front endpaper with some browning to the spine and some dust staining to the top edge. A good unclipped wrapper, priced correctly at $2.75, with general edge wear and rubbing. Some chipping. Some clear tape repairs to the top edges and some older internal repairs. A touch darkened to the spine.
The play takes place in Madrid during the siege of the city and focuses on Philip Rawlings, an American journalist who is secretly a counter espionage agent hunting fascist sympathisers — the “fifth column” operating from within. The play blends political tension, cynicism, romance, and moral ambiguity, reflecting Hemingway’s wartime experiences and his concerns about loyalty, propaganda, and truth under pressure.
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A first edition, first printing published by Scribners in 1938. A very good book (one of 5350 printed) with one name and date to the front endpaper with some browning to the spine and some dust staining to the top edge. A good unclipped wrapper, priced correctly at $2.75, with general edge wear and rubbing. Some chipping. Some clear tape repairs to the top edges and some older internal repairs. A touch darkened to the spine.
The play takes place in Madrid during the siege of the city and focuses on Philip Rawlings, an American journalist who is secretly a counter espionage agent hunting fascist sympathisers — the “fifth column” operating from within. The play blends political tension, cynicism, romance, and moral ambiguity, reflecting Hemingway’s wartime experiences and his concerns about loyalty, propaganda, and truth under pressure.
