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A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties Hardcover - 1964

by Ernest Hemingway

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. With the Scribner's 'A' on the copyright page and $4.95 price on the flap. Hemingway's memoirs of his expatriate life among the booksellers and literati of Paris, with vignettes of Sylvia Beach. James Joyce, Scott Fitzgerald, and others. One of his most popular and sought-after latter works. A fine copy, clean and unmarked , in a near fine jacket with a small gently closed edge tear on the back panel protected n an archival Mylar jacket cover.
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About this book

A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. In addition to painting a picture of Hemingway's time as a struggling young writer, the book also sketches the story of Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley. Published after his death, A Moveable Feast is considered by many to contain some of his best writing.

First Edition Identification

The first US edition was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1964. The copyright page has "A-3-64 [H] " Scribner's shorthand for 1st printed in March of 1964 in Hardback. Book Club editions have a "W".

The first UK edition was published by Jonathan Cape in 1964. An unclipped first edition 18s net.

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