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First Edition Of Hemingway’s First Book Published In The United States, In Our Time, This Copy Warmly Inscribed By Hemingway

First Edition Of Hemingway’s First Book Published In The United States, In Our Time, This Copy Warmly Inscribed By Hemingway

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First edition, a superb association copy, of the first of Hemingway's books published in the United States, one of only 1335 copies. This copy warmly inscribed by Hemingway to Eric Edward "Chink" Dorman-Smith, Hemingway's hero and first and closest adult friend and the dedicatee of in our time, the earlier collection of short stories that formed the nucleus of In Our Time : "To Chink with Hommages Respectueux from his former A.D.C. [aide-de-camp] and still, with the occasional permission of His Brittanic Majesty, companion—Popplethwaite, Paris, October 1925."

Dorman-Smith first met Hemingway (whom he called "Shamus O'Popplethwaite") in Milan in November 1918, where the nineteen-year-old aspiring author was recuperating from jaundice contracted as a consequence of wounds he suffered attempting to save a wounded Italian soldier. Though only a few years Hemingway's senior, Dorman-Smith had been fighting since 1914 with the Northumberland Fusiliers, and he gave Hemingway some of his earliest insight into the nature of war and a soldier's understanding of death. Hemingway would regularly refer to Dorman-Smith and the adventures they shared in his journalism, poetry, stories and non-fiction from 1923 until the end of his life. Dorman-Smith's career is portrayed in Across the River and Into the Trees, about which he remarked to Hemingway: "How did you know things that are known only to retired army officers?" Hemingway also wrote about him in Moveable Feast, and used two of his friend's war anecdotes in in our time, which was dedicated to him. Sharing a love of literature and sport, the two would remain friends for life, taking any opportunity to get together for bouts of drinking, skiing, fishing, hiking, and bull-running; Dorman-Smith was godfather to Hemingway's son, Bumby.
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First Edition Of Hemingway’s First Book Published In The United States, In Our Time, This Copy Warmly Inscribed By Hemingway
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