HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typescript of "Introduction for Illustrated Edition of A Farewell to Arms ." Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 30 June 1948. 7 pages, 4to, triple spaced, with 10 separate revisions by Hemingway (comprising 43 words in pencil in his hand), the setting copy with editor's directions and markings in pencil, some minor wrinkling and pinholes; half morocco slipcase. The illustrated edition of A Farewell to Arms , with drawings by Daniel Rasmusson and a new five-page introduction by the author, was issued by Scribner's late in 1948. Hemingway's typescript begins: "This book was written in Paris, France, Key West, Florida, Piggott, Arkansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Sheridan, Wyoming and the first draft of it was finished near Big Horn in Wyoming. It was begun in the first winter months of 1928 and the first draft was finished in September of that year. It was re-written in the fall and winter of 1928 in Key West and the final re-writing was finished in Paris in the spring of 1929. During the time I was writing the first draft my second son Patrick was delivered in Kansas City by Caesarean section and while I was re-writing my father killed himself...I was not quite thirty years old when I finished the book and the day it was published was the day the stock market crashed..." Hemingway talks about the writing of the novel and the tragic nature of life, discusses illustrated editions, etc., and continues: "...So this book was first published the day the market broke in 1929. The illustrated edition comes out this fall. Scott Fitzgerald is dead, Tom Wolfe is dead, Jim Joyce is dead (he the fine companion unlike the official Joyce of his biographers, who asked me one time, when drunk, if I did not think his work was too suburban), John Bishop is dead, Max Perkins is dead. Plenty of characters that should be dead are dead too. There are all the non-name guys dead too; most of whom liked life very much. It is an easy thing to like if you have any talent for it. The title of the book is A Farewell to Arms and except for three years there has been war of some kind almost ever since it has been written...I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it. The author of this book would be very glad to take charge of this shooting...So here is the book after nearly twenty years and this is the introduction." Provenance : Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 November 1977, lot 427, with note that this typescript had been presented by Hemingway to Malcolm Cowley).
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Typescript of "Introduction for Illustrated Edition of A Farewell to Arms ." Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, 30 June 1948. 7 pages, 4to, triple spaced, with 10 separate revisions by Hemingway (comprising 43 words in pencil in his hand), the setting copy with editor's directions and markings in pencil, some minor wrinkling and pinholes; half morocco slipcase. The illustrated edition of A Farewell to Arms , with drawings by Daniel Rasmusson and a new five-page introduction by the author, was issued by Scribner's late in 1948. Hemingway's typescript begins: "This book was written in Paris, France, Key West, Florida, Piggott, Arkansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Sheridan, Wyoming and the first draft of it was finished near Big Horn in Wyoming. It was begun in the first winter months of 1928 and the first draft was finished in September of that year. It was re-written in the fall and winter of 1928 in Key West and the final re-writing was finished in Paris in the spring of 1929. During the time I was writing the first draft my second son Patrick was delivered in Kansas City by Caesarean section and while I was re-writing my father killed himself...I was not quite thirty years old when I finished the book and the day it was published was the day the stock market crashed..." Hemingway talks about the writing of the novel and the tragic nature of life, discusses illustrated editions, etc., and continues: "...So this book was first published the day the market broke in 1929. The illustrated edition comes out this fall. Scott Fitzgerald is dead, Tom Wolfe is dead, Jim Joyce is dead (he the fine companion unlike the official Joyce of his biographers, who asked me one time, when drunk, if I did not think his work was too suburban), John Bishop is dead, Max Perkins is dead. Plenty of characters that should be dead are dead too. There are all the non-name guys dead too; most of whom liked life very much. It is an easy thing to like if you have any talent for it. The title of the book is A Farewell to Arms and except for three years there has been war of some kind almost ever since it has been written...I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it. The author of this book would be very glad to take charge of this shooting...So here is the book after nearly twenty years and this is the introduction." Provenance : Jonathan Goodwin (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25 November 1977, lot 427, with note that this typescript had been presented by Hemingway to Malcolm Cowley).
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