HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Green Hills of Africa

First edition. Fine, with none of the spine fading to the cloth that usually plagues this title, in fine dustwrapper (the presumed first issue with the 2.5" green band on the rear panel). Housed in an older chemise and custom quarter pigskin and cloth slipcase. Bookplate on the front pastedown of Professor Fraser Drew of the University of Buffalo in New York. As a young teacher, Drew wrote a letter to which Hemingway responded kindly. Eventually, Hemingway invited Drew to visit him in Havana. On April 8, 1955, one year after Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Drew and Hemingway spent a long afternoon discussing literature and teaching, later recounted by Drew in his article "Unedited Notes on a Visit to Finca Vigia" (in Bruccoli, Conversations With Ernest Hemingway, 89-98), an account remarkable for its portrayal of Hemingway's modesty and generosity. An exceptionally fresh and bright copy of Hemingway's famous account of big-game hunting, with digressions on literary matters. Hanneman 13A. Bruccoli & Clark I:179.

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