GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA

Hemingway, Ernest

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1935

About this Item

Octavo, 295 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Aged white and green spine with black lettering and designs. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$2.75", has mild shelving wear, moderate chipping along the edges and extremities, small open tears along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges, bending wear along the front tail edge and head edges, stains throughout, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the fore corners, stains on the rear board, and moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has splitting to gutter from page 27-58, mild wear along the edges, moderate age-toning along the edges, and stains along the head edge. Early printing, with Scribners seal but no A. Second State DJ. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, an affluent Chicago suburb. In 1928, Hemingway and his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer would move to Key West, Florida, Hemingway himself moving regularly between Florida and Wyoming where he developed a love of hunting. In 1933, Hemingway and Pfeiffer would go on safari to Kenya where Hemingway got much of the material he would use to write "Green Hills of Africa". "Green Hills of Africa" would be published first in serialization from May to November of 1935 before being published officially in October of the same year. Hemingway's second non-fiction work, it would initially receive a cool reception, though days and weeks after would come to receive more glowing reviews for its novel writing. Despite then and today being regarded as a magnificent work of nonfiction writing, Hemingway would blame the books poor sales on initial bad reviews and the stories influenced by the women in his life. 1390168. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, Early Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Travel, Exploration, & Geography