COHN, Louis Henry

A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway

First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Hemingway's introduction reproduced as a foldout reproduction of the manuscript. Bookplate of noted Hemingway scholar and collector Fraser Bragg Drew, slight crease at the edge of the foldout, and some rubbing at the crown, else a crisp, near fine copy, lacking the unprinted tissue dustwrapper. Inscribed by Cohn to Drew. Laid into the book is Cohn's own bookplate, which was designed for Cohn and lettered (in print) by Hemingway. 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. The first bibliography of Hemingway.

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