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Auction archive: Lot number 74

HEMINGWAY, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea London: Jonathan C...

Books & Manuscripts
15 Nov 2011
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
Auction archive: Lot number 74

HEMINGWAY, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea London: Jonathan C...

Books & Manuscripts
15 Nov 2011
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
Beschreibung:

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea . London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea . London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. 8 o . Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket (some chips and tears at edges and along spine panel). Provenance : Elizabeth Kinloch (presentation inscription from the author); given to her husband Major Bruce Kinloch and then to Geoffrey Barham. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "With sincere best wishes Ernest Hemingway. Entebbe 26/1/54 EH." An evocative memento given by Hemingway the day after his plane crashed in Entebbe. Major Bruce Kinloch had retired from the Army in 1849 and soon became the Chief Game Warden of three African countries and lived in Entebbe. His wife, Elizabeth Kinloch, worked in the control tower of the airfield there. An incoming plane radioed to her on 25 January 1954 to say that he had spotted a crashed aircraft. Mrs. Kinloch alerted her husband who set up a search party to see if there were any survivors. Hemingway was found sitting on a rock near the aircraft, unhurt. He was taken to the hospital for the night, and the following day Mrs. Kinloch visited him there to check on his condition. He seemed well and she took the occasion to ask him to sign the present copy of The Old Man and the Sea. Hanneman 45A.

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea . London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea . London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. 8 o . Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket (some chips and tears at edges and along spine panel). Provenance : Elizabeth Kinloch (presentation inscription from the author); given to her husband Major Bruce Kinloch and then to Geoffrey Barham. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY on the front free endpaper: "With sincere best wishes Ernest Hemingway. Entebbe 26/1/54 EH." An evocative memento given by Hemingway the day after his plane crashed in Entebbe. Major Bruce Kinloch had retired from the Army in 1849 and soon became the Chief Game Warden of three African countries and lived in Entebbe. His wife, Elizabeth Kinloch, worked in the control tower of the airfield there. An incoming plane radioed to her on 25 January 1954 to say that he had spotted a crashed aircraft. Mrs. Kinloch alerted her husband who set up a search party to see if there were any survivors. Hemingway was found sitting on a rock near the aircraft, unhurt. He was taken to the hospital for the night, and the following day Mrs. Kinloch visited him there to check on his condition. He seemed well and she took the occasion to ask him to sign the present copy of The Old Man and the Sea. Hanneman 45A.

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
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