The First Forty-Nine Stories – Ernest Hemingway (HC 7th Imp) Jonathan Cape 1954

Hemingway bundled his three early collections—In Our Time, Men Without Women, and Winner Take Nothing—plus an additional six favourites (“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” etc.) into this omnibus of forty-nine stories, first issued in 1938 and reprinted steadily afterwards. Your copy is Jonathan Cape’s 1954 seventh impression, printed at the Alden Press, Oxford, and runs 471 pages. The ochre cloth boards show light handling soil, softened spine ends, and an embossed private-library seal on the front pastedown; pages are clean and still well-bound. Lacking the original dust-jacket, it nevertheless delivers a solid, display-ready reading copy of Hemingway’s essential short fiction for readers, collectors, or décor stylists looking for a mid-century literary accent. Item Breakdown: - Author: Ernest Hemingway - Title: The First Forty-Nine Stories - Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Sq., London - Year / Impression: 1954, Seventh Impression - Pages: 471 pp. - Binding: Ochre buckram hardcover, red spine-titles (no dust-jacket) - Country of Manufacture: Great Britain - Printer & Binder: Alden Press, Oxford / A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd. (stated) - Language: English - Dimensions: approx. 7.8 × 5.1 in. × 1.5 in. (20 × 13 × 4 cm) - Special Attributes: omnibus of Hemingway’s first three collections + six later stories - Condition grade: Good (no jacket, edge/corner wear, mild age-toning, private-library emboss) Minor edge wear on the cover; pa