Winner take nothing
by Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
London : Jonathan Cape , 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the Patients' Library at Haslar Hospital with its lending library bookplate. Physical description; 1 p., [1]-250 p., 2. ; 19.2 cm. Subjects; Ernest Hemingway. 20th century fiction. Genre; Novel.
Synopsis
Winner Take Nothing is a 1933 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's third collection of short stories, it was published four years after his most recent novel, A Farewell to Arms (1929), and a year after the non-fiction book about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932).
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Details
- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 288288
- Title
- Winner take nothing
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- London : Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1934
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