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Below you will find first edition covers for Hemingway's books. Perhaps more important than the covers in determining a "true" Hemingway first edition is the information printed on the copyright page. Rick Allen, writer for a rare books web site explains:

"Scribner's employed various methods of defining first editions. Early in 1929 the dates on the title and copyright pages had to be identical with no indication of later printings on the copyright page. Later that year the letter 'A' was placed on the copyright page to indicate a first printing. It was later removed or replaced with subsequent letters of the alphabet, usually in the form:

A-3.64 [H]
where
A..........The edition (A=1st, B=2nd, etc.)
3.64..........The date it was published (e.g. March, 1964)
[H]..........[H]ardcover or [P]aperback

This system was discontinued in 1973 and replaced by a series of descending numbers, the smallest being the edition:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

The above example would indicate the 2nd edition."

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First Edition Covers (arranged by publication date)

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) in our time (1924) In Our Time (1925)

The Torrents of Spring (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1926)  Men Without Women (1927)

A Farewell to Arms (1929) Death in the Afternoon (1932) Winner Take Nothing (1933)

Green Hills of Africa (1935) To Have and Have Not (1937) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

A Moveable Feast (1964) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Dangerous Summer (1985)

The Garden of Eden (1986) True at First Light (1999) Under Kilimanjaro (2005)



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