HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
To Have and have not. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.
8vo, pp. [viii], 262; a very good copy in the publisher’s black cloth, spine blocked in green and gilt, in a good unpriceclipped dustjacket, some creasing at head and on front fore-edge; ownership inscription to front endpaper, stamp of Washington Square Book Shop on rear endpaper.
First edition, first printing. To Have and Have Not was Hemingway’s first long novel since A Farewell to Arms (1929), and its politics were much influenced by Republican Spain, to which Hemingway was still frequently travelling. Set in Key West, the ‘paradise of the “haves” and purgatory of the “have nots”’, and Cuba, the novel is narrated from several perspectives at several times. The main protagonist is the fishing boat captain Harry Morgan, who turns to gun-running during the Depression. William Faulkner co-wrote the screenplay for its film adaptation of 1944 starring Bogart and Bacall, which Hemingway did not like.
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