A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, First Printing, 1964

Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1964]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. In the publisher's original rust cloth backstrip over marbled boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Original publisher’s unclipped dustjacket. 

Presented is a first edition, first printing of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous memoir, A Moveable Feast. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, on May 5, 1964. It is offered here in the publisher’s original rust cloth backstrip over marbled boards, with the front board and spine stamped in gilt, as well as the original unclipped dust jacket. 

A Moveable Feast details Hemingway’s years as a young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. Featured throughout are stories of his friends, fellow writers, artists, and key figures of the Lost Generation, as well as his first wife Hadley Richardson, set in the cafes, restaurants, galleries, and hotels of the French city. Upon publication, Charles Poore, book reviewer for The New York Times, wrote, “Here is Hemingway at his best. No one has ever written about Paris in the nineteen twenties as well as Hemingway.”

While visiting Paris in November of 1956, Hemingway was reminded of several trunks he had stored in the Ritz Hotel in 1928 and never retrieved. Upon re-claiming and opening the trunks, he discovered they were filled with notebooks and writing from his Paris years. Excited about the discovery, he began to shape the recovered work into his memoir, A Moveable Feast. In the book’s prefatory note,  Mary Hemingway details the writing timeline: “Ernest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958-59, took it with him to Spain ... in April, 1959, and brought it back with him to Cuba and then to Ketchum late that fall. He finished the book in the spring of 1960 in Cuba.... He made some revisions ... in the fall of 1960 in Ketchum. It concerns the years 1921 to 1926 in Paris.” After Hemingway death in 1961, the book was edited from Hemingway's manuscripts, final draft, and notes by his widow Mary Hemingway. It was published three years later, in May of 1964.

CONDITION:

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Very good+ condition. Publisher’s rust cloth backstrip over marbled boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to binding. Illustrated. The copyright page has Code A-3.64[H]. Interior pages are healthy and bright. Smudges on pp. 82-83 that do not interfere with the legibility of the words. 211 pp. 

In the publisher's first edition dust jacket. Very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket with “$4.95” price. Jacket toned, somewhat edgeworn, a few creases, some scuffing to panels, some marginal chipping, a few marginal short tears.

Dimensions: 8 1/2" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D.

Accompanied by our company's letter of authenticity.