Islands in the Stream : First printing

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0002213443 / ISBN 13: 9780002213448

Published by Collins, London, United Kingdom, 1970

About this Item

True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£2.00/40s). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small mark, fading to/near spine, the odd small crease/rub to edges, a couple of very small (approx. 2mms) tears, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, patchy browning/odd small mark/minor foxing to reverse (white side) and minor creasing/rubbing/odd small mark to front/back inner flaps. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Odd small mark/minor foxing to top edge of pages. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges. Very occasional small mark/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islands in the Stream : First printing
• Publisher: Collins, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002213443
• ISBN 13: 9780002213448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

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)