Retailer SIGNED, Hemingway in Love: His Own Story, A. E. Hotchner, Signed on the half-title page, First Edition, First Printing, New, 2015

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. F/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by A. E. Hotchner on the half-title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp retailer tips, and clean unmarred boards. 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) with faint rubbing to the middle of the top front panel, and a thin vertical smudge to the front flap (see photos), else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

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 Paris, and how he lost Hadley. Hotchner also reveals the genuine aspects of each literary woman Hemingway later created and the great love he spent the rest of his life seeking.


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