HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Men Without Women

First edition, first issue, weighing 15.5 ounces. Gold labels a trifle tarnished and rubbed, near fine in very near fine first issue dustwrapper with some modest uniform age-toning. 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. Hemingway's second collection of stories to appear in the U.S., and the book which confirmed his status as a master of the short story, with such classics as "The Killers," "Fifty Grand," and "Hills Like White Elephants."

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