A lovely bright copy of the first impression of the BCA edition in once read condition. No inscriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit toned at the page block edge. The cloth boards are nice and fresh with crisp title lettering on the spine. The dust jacket is in equally nice condition and not price clipped, albeit with a slightly sun faded spine. A superb copy in all.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Islands in the Stream
Publisher: Book Club Associates; BCA, London
Publication Date: 1970
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0002213443
ISBN 13: 9780002213448
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

This is the three part novel that Hemingway was writing at the time of his death.

Review

"Hemingway's most deeply autobiographical piece of work" (Irish Times)

"Hemingway’s style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality" (Guardian)

"Many of the episodes contain the most exciting and effective writing Hemingway has ever done" (Saturday Review)

"This book contains some of the best of Hemingway's descriptions of nature: the waves breaking white and green on the reef off the coast of Cuba; the beauty of the morning on the deep water; the hermit crabs and land crabs and ghost crabs; a big barracuda stalking mullet; a heron flying with his white wings over the green water; the ibis and flamingoes and spoonbills, the last of these beautiful with the sharp rose of their color; the mosquitoes in clouds from the marshes; the water that curled and blew under the lash of the wind; the sculpture that the wind and sand had made of a piece of driftwood, gray and sanded and embedded in white, floury sand" (Edmund Wilson Saturday Review)

"Thomas Hudson, the painter in the book Islands in the Streamis Hemingway himself, attempting to come to terms with everything he loves - the clarity of a brushstroke, his three children, his ex-wives, his lovers, his whores, his friends, his cats, his rifle, his Booth's gin" (Newsweek)

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Richardson Rare Books Tel. 01472 823900 was formerly known as Mr. Books which is located on Tonbridge High Street in Kent, England for over 12 years up until July 2017. Due to the sale of the bricks and mortar side of the business it made sense to change the name to reflect a shift of direction. Since then we have been trading online, at PBFA fairs and Bloomsbury Book Fairs, as well as showcases at select antique centres in Lincolnshire. We don't specialise in anything in particular, just rare and fine books on many subjects. Over the years we have built up an impressive range of signed modern fiction firsts which aren't always listed on abebooks so please do call us if you have any particularly collections you'd like to add to. The stock is being constantly replenished so it's always worth visiting us at one of the fairs we exhibit at. See web site for details (subject to constructing it.)

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Richardson Rare Books is owned and run by Mark Richardson, trading as a sole trader, at The Ramblers, Chapel Lane, Ashby cum Fenby, North East Lincolnshire, DN37 0QT, England. Email: mrbooks@btinternet.com Tel. 01472 823900 All books are sold in good faith with as accurate descriptions as possible. For this reason we have a tiny amount of returns out of the many thousands we sell. If you are unhappy on receipt of your purchase then please contact me by email or phone. You will be refunded the co...

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