HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typescript of a story about crime in Chicago for the Toronto Star Weekly . [Toronto, May 1921]. 3 pages, 4to, on three sheets of tan newsroom copy paper, double-spaced, the author's name "Ernest M. Hemingway" typed at head, with some typed revisions and a six-word alteration in pencil in his hand, silked, left margin of first page chipped with loss of a few words, some other marginal chipping; half morocco slipcase. This story about gangland crime in Chicago dates from Hemingway's time as a reporter on the Toronto Star Weekly before he first went to Paris. It appeared in the feature section of the paper on 28 May 1921 under the headline-title: "Gun-Men's Wild Political War on in Chicago" (Hanneman C56); the piece was collected in The Wild Years (1962), pp. 46-48. The characteristic Hemingway handling of violence is evident even in this early newspaper story: "Anthony D'Andrea, pale and spectacled, defeated candidate for alderman of the 19th ward Chicago, stepped out of his closed car in front of his residence and holding an automatic pistol in his hand backed gingerly up the steps. Reaching back with his left hand to press the door bell, he was blinded by two red jets of flame from the window of the next apartment, heard a terrific roar and felt himself clouted sickeningly in the body [wit]h the shock of the slugs from the sawed off shot gun...the pale faced D'Andrea, his body torn, his horned rimmed spectacles broken, but hooked on, pulled himself to his knees and looking with his near sighted eyes into the darkness jerked five shots out of his automatic pistol in the direction of the shot gun that had roared his death warrant..." Provenance : Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 152).
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typescript of a story about crime in Chicago for the Toronto Star Weekly . [Toronto, May 1921]. 3 pages, 4to, on three sheets of tan newsroom copy paper, double-spaced, the author's name "Ernest M. Hemingway" typed at head, with some typed revisions and a six-word alteration in pencil in his hand, silked, left margin of first page chipped with loss of a few words, some other marginal chipping; half morocco slipcase. This story about gangland crime in Chicago dates from Hemingway's time as a reporter on the Toronto Star Weekly before he first went to Paris. It appeared in the feature section of the paper on 28 May 1921 under the headline-title: "Gun-Men's Wild Political War on in Chicago" (Hanneman C56); the piece was collected in The Wild Years (1962), pp. 46-48. The characteristic Hemingway handling of violence is evident even in this early newspaper story: "Anthony D'Andrea, pale and spectacled, defeated candidate for alderman of the 19th ward Chicago, stepped out of his closed car in front of his residence and holding an automatic pistol in his hand backed gingerly up the steps. Reaching back with his left hand to press the door bell, he was blinded by two red jets of flame from the window of the next apartment, heard a terrific roar and felt himself clouted sickeningly in the body [wit]h the shock of the slugs from the sawed off shot gun...the pale faced D'Andrea, his body torn, his horned rimmed spectacles broken, but hooked on, pulled himself to his knees and looking with his near sighted eyes into the darkness jerked five shots out of his automatic pistol in the direction of the shot gun that had roared his death warrant..." Provenance : Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 152).
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