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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by A. E. Hotchner on the half-title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, sharp tips, and black cloth boards. Faint creases to spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W matte photos. Endpapers are decorated with the script of a letter from Hemingway to Hotchner. The dust jacket is unclipped ($19.99) Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 172 pages. 5¼ x 7¾" tall.A. E. Hotchner was Hemingway's close friend, editor, traveling companion, and close confidant from 1948 until the novelist's death in 1961. Hotchner died at age 102 in 2020. In 2015 he published "Hemingway in Love," a book that divulges Hemingway's thoughts and truths about the women in his life. Hotchner writes of the affair that destroyed Hemingway's first marriage, the truth of his romantic life in… Read More